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October 26, 2023
News & Commentary

Michelle Berger

UAW deal, Hollywood strike, Speaker Johnson

September 4, 2023
News & Commentary

Elyse Weissberger

UNITE Here and SEIU-affiliated unions push for approval of the Good Jobs for Good Airports Act; Maryland community colleges form faculty unions; The United States and Canada celebrate Labor Day

Dobbs and the Complicated Story of Women’s Progress at Work

Aug 8, 2023 Naomi Schoenbaum

Professor Naomi Schoenbaum writes about four new federal protections for women’s rights in the workplace -- and the Congressional politicking that has accompanied those bills -- in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.

July 30, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Julie Su facing challenges to DOL leadership; DOL facing budget cuts

January 15, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

Supreme Court grants cert to religious accommodation case, GOP House rules aim to eliminate staff unions

January 3, 2023
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

Starbucks ends the year making headlines for the wrong reasons; Trader Joe's workers in Minneapolis walk off the job; Republicans plan to attack Congressional workers' right to organize; and the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments for the important Glacier Northwest case next week.

November 16, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

Whistleblowers expose employment law violations at Tesla's new Texas facility; uncertainty around fate of tentative railway deal; Starbucks shutters yet another unionized store; the implications of the midterm elections for national labor and employment policy

September 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

In today’s News and Commentary: Congressional staffers form the first-ever union, more Congressional offices hold union elections, and the last remaining rail union signs a tentative agreement. Staffers in the office of Democratic Congressmember Andy Levin voted unanimously to unionize. While staffers voted last week, the union announced the results on Monday. This marks the […]

August 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The Senate passed the $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act on Sunday, a social spending package arguably representing “one of the single biggest investments ever made on climate in the world.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) pledged yesterday that she will urge lawmakers in the lower chamber to approve the sweeping legislation as soon as Friday. […]

August 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, a major spending bill passes the Senate, while the labor market exceeds analyst expectations — and then some. More big news from Washington. The $740 billion climate, health-care, and tax bill that Kevin teed up over the weekend passed the Senate yesterday afternoon, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the […]

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