September 22nd 2021
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The weekend brought a number of developments in the evolving Senate negotiations over President Biden’s $3.5 trillion budget package. On Sunday evening, the Senate Parliamentarian opined that a measure creating a pathway to citizenship for millions of...
After a weekend of sluggish procedural advances, which Fred described on Monday, the Senate finally, after months of grueling bipartisan negotiations, passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion physical infrastructure package, called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs...
Yesterday Senate Democrats released their $3.5 trillion dollar budget blueprint that they hope to pass via reconciliation without needing any GOP votes. A publicly released memo sent by Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) details the provisions in the...
The Senate voted on Tuesday to approve Julie Su as the United States Deputy Labor Secretary, the second highest ranking position in the Department of Labor. Su, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was previously serving as the Labor Secretary for the state of...
Senate Republicans today blocked a bill, the Paycheck Fairness Act (H.R. 7), that imposes higher standards and larger penalties on companies over claims of pay discrimination based on sex. Specifically, would limit an employer's defense that a pay differential is...
The Clean Slate for Worker Power released a series of reports on Tuesday providing in-depth analysis and explanation of key policy recommendations designed to achieve fundamental labor law reform. The exciting new reports focus primarily on developing sectoral...
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) act was reintroduced and passed in the House last month for the second time after being introduced last year and stalling in the Republican Senate. Endorsed by nearly 140 major unions including the UAW, AFL-CIO, SEIU,...
On Saturday, the Senate voted 50-49 to pass Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus package, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, after a marathon debate that lasted for more than 24 consecutive hours. The package was passed through the budget reconciliation process,...
The fight for a $15 minimum wage continues, after the Senate parliamentarian ruled earlier this week that the wage hike provision was not consistent with the Byrd Rule and therefore could not be passed through budget reconciliation along with Senate Democrats’...
With the new Democrat-controlled Senate, President Biden could unleash the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to quickly dispense with over 80 “midnight regulations” promulgated in the Trump Administration’s final 60 legislative days (estimated to be August 21, 2020)....
President Joe Biden’s ambitious pro-worker agenda is confronting a cruel legislative reality. Thanks to the Senate filibuster—a parliamentary maneuver that blocks legislation indefinitely barring a 60-vote override—Democrats’ razor-thin Senate margins make it...
The long-running dispute between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and the city’s school district (CPS) may be nearing its end. On Sunday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Union announced a tentative deal that would resume in-person learning in a series of staggered...