Retu Singla, ESQ.
30 years of experience
Represented hundreds of workers across the U.S. labor movement
Ms. Retu Singla has been a community activist for over 30 years. Prior to becoming a lawyer, she co-founded, alongside low wage immigrant workers, a membership based non-profit in New York City. Her legal training has been focused on movement lawyering for over 20 years.
To Ms. Singla, workers’ rights encompass a large array of human rights from the right to decent work and freedom of association to equal opportunity and protection against discrimination. She believes that fair treatment of workers is sound public policy and good business practices that society should value. Her passion for the rights of workers alongside her experience and skills drive her to be a movement oriented lawyer.
Ms. Singla believes that movement lawyering takes direction from directly impacted people and from organizers, as opposed to imposing legal expertise. It means building the power of the people, not the power of the law. As a movement lawyer she works within the larger civil rights and labor movement to help change the conditions that lead to worker exploitation so as to strengthen the grassroots base of the labor and civil rights movement. Her practice is based on anti-oppressive and democratic principles to create an environment that mirrors progressive change that is movement centered.
She is a member of the Legal Network for Gender Equity & TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund, Fast Food Justice, Law for Black Lives and the Association for Union Democracy. She has served as a delegate of international accompaniers by the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to observe the expanded audit of the April 14, 2013 Special Election and a Delegate to the 2008 International Conference of the Role of Unions and Labor Lawyers in Havana, Cuba.
Ms. Singla enjoys training, mentoring and working collaboratively with the next generation of labor lawyers and has spoken at a number of lawyer conferences throughout her legal career.
She holds a Bachelors of Arts from the New School for Social Research and a Juris Doctorate from the University of California at Los Angeles, Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
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