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Pregnancy Discrimination, Proxy Voting, and Workplace Accommodation

Apr 28, 2025 Lucy Cheskin

In February, Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen made headlines when she cast her vote against the House’s proposed budget deal with her four-week-old baby in her arms. Faced with the House’s prohibition on voting by proxy, Rep. Pettersen returned from her home district in Colorado shortly after giving birth in order to make her voice heard and discharge her duty […]

January 10, 2025
News & Commentary

Holt McKeithan

In today’s News and Commentary, Josh Hawley releases a pro-labor proposal, thousands of nurses and doctors strike in Oregon, and Starbucks Workers United files new ULP complaints. Republican Senator Josh Hawley has called for a “Pro-Worker Framework” for the upcoming Congress. The proposal calls for a ban on captive audience meetings, safety and health protections, […]

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 […]

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