Terri Gerstein (’95), Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, contributed a guest essay to The New York Times discussing how improving working conditions and bargaining for the common good benefits our collective health, safety and well-being (“Other People’s Rotten Jobs Are Bad for Them. And for You.” Sep. 6). “We should care about workers’ rights as a matter of social justice and basic humanity. These powerful and varied ripple effects suggest that everyone — not just low-wage workers or union activists — has skin in the game when we talk about raising the minimum wage or passing paid sick leave laws or making it easier for people to join a union. . . . It benefits all of us if the people doing essential work throughout our economy have good jobs, a collective voice and dignified treatment at work.”