January 29, 2026 News & Commentary Texas pauses H-1B hiring; NLRB General Counsel announces new procedures and priorities; Fourth Circuit rejects a teacher's challenge to pronoun policies.
January 25, 2026 News & Commentary Uber and Lyft face class actions against “women preference” matching, Virginia home healthcare workers push for a collective bargaining bill, and the NLRB launches a new intake protocol.
January 16, 2026 News & Commentary The NLRB publishes its first decision since regaining a quorum; Minneapolis labor unions call for a general strike in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good; federal workers rally in DC to show support for the Protecting America’s Workforce Act.
January 11, 2026 News & Commentary Colorado unions revive push for pro-organizing bill, December’s jobs report shows an economic slowdown, and the NLRB begins handing down new decisions
January 8, 2026 News & Commentary Pittsburg Post-Gazette announces closure in response to labor dispute, Texas AFT sues the state on First Amendment grounds, Baltimore approves its first project labor agreement, and the Board formally regains a quorum.
December 22, 2025 News & Commentary Worker-friendly legislation enacted in New York; UW Professor wins free speech case; Trucking company ordered to pay $23 million to Teamsters.
Building Worker Power in a Precarious Federal Landscape: Sectoral Strategies and Worker Democracy This post launches a new series exploring how states and cities can expand worker power in the United States. The series is grounded in a set of working papers and policy briefs that offer creative approaches for state and local action in a time when the federal labor law framework is increasingly unreliable. Each post […]
December 21, 2025 News & Commentary Argentine unions march against labor law reform; WNBA players vote to authorize a strike; and the NLRB prepares to clear its backlog.
December 19, 2025 News & Commentary Labor law professors file an amici curiae and the NLRB regains quorum.
The Boss Has Entered the Chat In recognition of the “inequality of bargaining power” between employees and employers, Congress protected workers’ rights to participate in concerted activity as defined by § 7 of the NLRA. Yet employers have long sought to limit the scope of § 7 protections. Now, a set of firings by a Vermont-based company has forced the D.C. […]
