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The Shameful Defeat of David Weil’s Nomination

May 3, 2022 Sara Tsai

On March 30, 2022, David Weil’s nomination to head the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division was defeated in an unexpected 47–53 vote, marking the first time one of President Biden’s nominees was defeated in a floor vote. In an unexpected twist, three Democratic Senators — Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and Mark Kelly — joined the […]

April 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

Maryland’s Republican governor Larry Hogan vetoed a statewide paid family and medical leave bill this week. The bill would have guaranteed up to 12 weeks annually for workers with medical need or up 24 weeks for a parent requiring medical need during pregnancy followed by parental leave. However, the state legislature passed the bill with […]

April 1, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted down President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, on a mostly party-line vote that got three Democrats to vote no alongside every Republican senator. The nominee was David Weil, who previously held the role under President Obama. He has written extensively about how modern […]

August 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), […]

July 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted 51-50 to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo as General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote. Abruzzo’s confirmation, preceded Tuesday by an equally divided, party-line vote to end Senate debate on the nominee, marks an end to a bitterly partisan Senate debate […]

April 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was released yesterday in anticipation of the speech. Among other provisions, the plan would provide up to […]

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