On Labor Day, September 1, Workplace Fairness will launch the Take Back Labor Day blog project right here, on the new and improved Today’s Workplace blog.

Some of the most influential and provocative thinkers on workplace issues today have agreed to participate in Workplace Fairness’s Take Back Labor Day blog project. They are:

Morra Aarons-Mele, Blogger, Women & Work
• Paul Bland, Staff Attorney, Public Justice
• Natasha Chart, Blogger, Open Left, MyDD and Pacific Views
Katie Corrigan, Co-Director, Workplace Flexibility 2000
Phil Dine, Journalist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Author, “State of the Unions”
Phil Duran, Staff Attorney, OutFront Minnesota
Cynthia Estlund, law professor at New York University School of Law
Chai Feldblum, Co-Director, Workplace Flexibility 2000
Charlotte Fishman, Executive Director, Pick Up The Pace
Melvina Ford, Executive Director, DC Employment Justice Center
Richard Freeman, Faculty Director, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School
Irasema Garza, President, Legal Momentum
Tom Geoghegan, Labor Lawyer and Author
Elizabeth Glidden, Minneapolis City Council; Employment Lawyer
Bruce Goldstein, Executive Director of Farmworker Justice
Jason Gooljar, Blogger, The Working Families Party Man
Steven Greenhouse, Journalist, New York Times and Author, “The Big Squeeze”
Mark Harbeke, Winning Workplaces
Tom Jackson, Workplace Author, including “The Perfect Resume”
David Kusnet, Author, “Love the Work, Hate the Job“
Anne Ladky, Executive Director, Women Employed
Art Levine, Investigative Reporter and Blogger, Huffington Post and Contributing Editor, Washington Monthly
Mike Lux, co-founder of Progressive Strategies, LLC, and OpenLeft.com
Dr. David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress
Lew Maltby, Executive Director, National Workrights Institute
Cyrus Mehri, Employment Lawyer (Texaco, Coca-Cola)
Shannon Price Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights and lead counsel in the California marriage case
David Moberg, Senior Editor of In These Times
Jen Nedeau, womens issues blogger for Change.org
Nathan Newman, Policy Director, Progressive States Network; Blogger, TPMCafe
Myron Quon, Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
Richard Renner, Legal Director, National Whistleblower Center
Bob Rosner, Workplace Columnist, Working Wounded
Robin Runge, Director of the Commission on Domestic Violence at the American Bar Association
Paul Secunda, law professor at Marquette and blogger, Workplace Prof Blog
Rick Seymour, Employment Attorney; formerly with Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
Ellen Simon, Employment Attorney and former Congressional candidate
Diane Stafford, Workplace and Careers Columnist, Kansas City Star
Paul Tobias, Founder of the National Employment Lawyers Association and Workplace Fairness

Take Back Labor Day is part of a larger effort, where upwards of 40 blogs have agreed to blog about Labor Day and labor issues on Labor Day 2008, to rally American workers and remind the American public about what Labor Day is really about – that’s it’s much much more than just a three-day weekend!

At Workplace Fairness, we hope the Today’s Workplace blog will become the premier online discussion forum for experts, thought leaders, organizers, practitioners and the general public to mix freely with each other to find common ground and shape the public discourse around labor – what’s discussed, how it’s discussed, and ultimately impacting policy.  Visit us in September and join the conversation!

UPDATE: Thanks to Michael Whitney at American Rights at Work, we’ve been plugged on DailyKos!  Michael will be joining us as a blogger as well.

UPDATE 2: More guest bloggers have joined us, including David Moberg, Senior Editor of In These Times, and Paul Secunda, law professor at Marquette and blogger, Workplace Prof Blog.  Don’t be left out — if you have something to say, contact us, or be sure to participate in the comments section once we launch on Labor Day, September 1.

UPDATE 3: We’re still adding bloggers to our list:  Cynthia Estlund, law professor at New York University School of Law, Robin Runge, Director of the Commission on Domestic Violence at the American Bar Association, and Dr. David Madland, the Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress, will also be joining the fun here at Today’s Workplace.