Worker Juries for Worker Rights: A Response to Estreicher and Strom A hundred years ago, Clarence Darrow was both the greatest trial lawyer and labor lawyer in the country. Before the creation of labor-relations agencies, union cases played out in courts in front of juries. Darrow advised that a jury of one’s peers was the working man’s best recourse. A century later that insight may offer a […]
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.
