Home Newsroom Newsroom Featured News Blog New data show warehouse injuries in New York skyrocketing as jobs in the sector continue to grow News Release Minimum Wage Increases and Worker Protections Coming in 2025 as Worker Momentum Builds News Release Chavez-DeRemer’s Labor Secretary Nomination Highlights Tension Between Pro-Worker Promises and Trump’s Project 2025 Anti-Labor Policies Blog As a Delivery Worker Union Campaign Takes Off, Amazon Tries to Dodge Labor Law Search Filters Topic Type Series Date News Release NELP Applauds FTC’s Proposed Rule to Ban Non-Compete Contracts for All Workers in The U.S. The National Employment Law Project (NELP) applauds the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed rule to ban non-compete contracts for all workers. January 5, 2023 News Release Record Number of Cities, States will Increase Minimum Wages in 2023 After 10th anniversary of Fight for $15, raises signal that worker organizing has been effective amid pandemic recovery and record inflation. December 22, 2022 Blog Addressing Occupational Segregation Means Centering Black Women Workers Radical shifts for Black women workers mean building new narratives centered on abundance, dignity, and collective liberation. December 13, 2022 Press Clips CNBC: In the U.S., you can legally ‘be fired for any reason or no reason at all’—here’s why Tech companies have been making headlines lately for laying off hundreds and even thousands of employees. December 7, 2022 Press Clips Vox: We forgot to fix unemployment insurance yet again Layoffs are hitting tech and media. A recession may be looming. What happens to everyone who loses their job? December 6, 2022 News Release November Jobs Report: As Job Growth Continues, Fixing Unemployment Insurance Remains an Urgent Priority “Before the next recession, Congress must act with urgency and implement permanent, structural reform of the unemployment insurance system.” December 2, 2022 News Release Ten Years In, Fight for $15 and a Union Movement Helped Reduce Racial Wealth Gap Nationally, Injected $87.6 Billion Annually into U.S. Economy The Fight for $15 has helped Black and Latinx working people build wealth and inspired worker organizing across the U.S. November 29, 2022 Press Clips The Guardian: ‘The success is inspirational’: the Fight for $15 movement 10 years on Federal lawmakers failed to increase the minimum wage, but US workers made other gains, and they are setting their sights on new goals November 23, 2022 Press Clips Slate: Child Labor Has Made a Comeback A gruesome case at meatpacking plants is but one example. November 16, 2022 Press Clips CalMatters: To fight wage theft California gets strong assist from worker centers As California investigates businesses for wage theft, worker centers act as behind-the-scenes allies, helping convince employees to cooperate. November 15, 2022
Blog New data show warehouse injuries in New York skyrocketing as jobs in the sector continue to grow
News Release Chavez-DeRemer’s Labor Secretary Nomination Highlights Tension Between Pro-Worker Promises and Trump’s Project 2025 Anti-Labor Policies
News Release NELP Applauds FTC’s Proposed Rule to Ban Non-Compete Contracts for All Workers in The U.S. The National Employment Law Project (NELP) applauds the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed rule to ban non-compete contracts for all workers. January 5, 2023
News Release Record Number of Cities, States will Increase Minimum Wages in 2023 After 10th anniversary of Fight for $15, raises signal that worker organizing has been effective amid pandemic recovery and record inflation. December 22, 2022
Blog Addressing Occupational Segregation Means Centering Black Women Workers Radical shifts for Black women workers mean building new narratives centered on abundance, dignity, and collective liberation. December 13, 2022
Press Clips CNBC: In the U.S., you can legally ‘be fired for any reason or no reason at all’—here’s why Tech companies have been making headlines lately for laying off hundreds and even thousands of employees. December 7, 2022
Press Clips Vox: We forgot to fix unemployment insurance yet again Layoffs are hitting tech and media. A recession may be looming. What happens to everyone who loses their job? December 6, 2022
News Release November Jobs Report: As Job Growth Continues, Fixing Unemployment Insurance Remains an Urgent Priority “Before the next recession, Congress must act with urgency and implement permanent, structural reform of the unemployment insurance system.” December 2, 2022
News Release Ten Years In, Fight for $15 and a Union Movement Helped Reduce Racial Wealth Gap Nationally, Injected $87.6 Billion Annually into U.S. Economy The Fight for $15 has helped Black and Latinx working people build wealth and inspired worker organizing across the U.S. November 29, 2022
Press Clips The Guardian: ‘The success is inspirational’: the Fight for $15 movement 10 years on Federal lawmakers failed to increase the minimum wage, but US workers made other gains, and they are setting their sights on new goals November 23, 2022
Press Clips Slate: Child Labor Has Made a Comeback A gruesome case at meatpacking plants is but one example. November 16, 2022
Press Clips CalMatters: To fight wage theft California gets strong assist from worker centers As California investigates businesses for wage theft, worker centers act as behind-the-scenes allies, helping convince employees to cooperate. November 15, 2022
