Kerianne Steele is a partner at the union-side labor law firm Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in California. Ms. Steele serves as general counsel for a number of public sector/public service unions in California and otherwise represents many others. She leads the public sector practice area in her law firm. She develops, analyzes and comments on strategies and trends relating to worker organizing and the law in the California public sector. She is best known for her participation in the annual plenary session at the California Lawyers Association’s Public Sector Conference, and her role helping expand the right of public employees to strike. Ms. Steele also drafts and implements state and local legislation, trains union leaders, and provides legal representation in connection with organizing/strategic/contract campaigns, union governance and management, complex contract negotiations, administrative hearings including before PERB and the NLRB, mediation, arbitration, and litigation. Ms. Steele has supported unions and union members in a variety of ways during the pandemic, including by helping draft COVID-19-related state legislation, negotiating with employers regarding the necessity for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other COVID-19-related safety protocols, and defending health care workers who have faced retaliation for reporting unsafe working conditions. Prior to that, Ms. Steele helped unions throughout California prepare for the Janus v. AFSCME decision and implement California Assembly Bill 119 (regarding access to new employee orientation), and thereafter helped unions grow their membership beyond pre-Janus levels. Ms. Steele authored the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 Pocket Guide, published by California Public Employee Relations, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of California, Berkeley. She co-authors the public sector case notes column of the California Labor and Employment Law Review, the official publication of the California Lawyers Association. For several years, Ms. Steele helped update California Public Sector Labor Relations, published by LexisNexis, which is an essential secondary source used by California practitioners, and one year, she helped completely rewrite three chapters, including the chapter regarding organizational security. Ms. Steele attended law school at U.C. Davis, where she served as a steward of the graduate student employees union. Prior to law school, she organized low-wage hotel workers and assisted immigrants with asylum claims and family-based immigration petitions.