May 16th 2021
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The Clean Slate for Worker Power released a series of reports on Tuesday providing in-depth analysis and explanation of key policy recommendations designed to achieve fundamental labor law reform. The exciting new reports focus primarily on developing sectoral...
The reintroduction and passing of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act in the House last month offers some first steps on a path to reversing the dwindling power of unions in the U.S., and with it the growing economic and political inequality that the...
One year ago, we released our Clean Slate for Worker Power report. The report opened by invoking the idea that concentrated economic and political power threatens the functioning of democracy. We recognized that this idea shaped the New Deal and led to the...
If there is a silver lining in the efforts of Donald Trump’s appointees to crank out as many anti-worker decisions as possible at the National Labor Relations Board, it is that each new decision highlights the need for a fundamental overhaul of our labor...
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred multiple crises in our country including a public health crisis and an economic one. The need to protect the health of Americans and the need to protect their livelihoods might seem to require disparate approaches. But,...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court released two landmark decisions striking at the heart of federal employment law. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, No. 19–431, the Court ruled 7-2 to uphold two Trump administration rules expanding existing religious...
Clean Slate for Worker Power released a report today outlining recommendations for empowering worker voices and building a more equitable economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The report focuses on various threats COVID poses to working people: not just...
In a report released this morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that around 3.8 million more Americans filed for unemployment benefits this past week. This adds to an already daunting 26.5 million workers who had joined the rolls since the...
A version of this article was originally published by The Century Foundation. Labor law reform is having a renaissance, and not a minute too late. For starters, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act—a bill that, if...
Chipotle has been fined $1.3 million for child labor violations in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced the settlement on Monday, noting that the chain was responsible for an estimated 13,253 child labor violations. The fine is the...
California has experienced significant union growth—139,000 workers were unionized in the past year. 16.5% of California’s workforce is now unionized. Steve Smith, spokesman for the California Labor Federation, said, “We’re seeing a reinvigoration in organizing...