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 Blog Precarious at Work, Precarious in Health The coronavirus makes clear how difficult life is for underpaid workers in this country—from a lack of paid sick leave to inadequate employer-sponsored health care. March 13, 2020 News Release Congress Must Pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act Our leaders must act for the sake of workers and families, with a swift vote followed by signing into law. March 12, 2020 Commentary The Hill: Worker Health Is Central to Public Health The coronavirus has shined a light on the fragility and inadequacy of our worker health policies. March 11, 2020 News Release Virginia Approves Raising Minimum Wage to $12 by 2023, With Path to $15 by 2026 Virginia joins 29 other states in raising its minimum wage above the paltry federal floor of $7.25. March 9, 2020 News Release With ‘Joint Employer’ Rule, Trump NLRB Sides with Corporations Again When a company calls the shots at a workplace, it should be responsible to the people who work there. February 25, 2020 Blog Digging up the Root: How UNC Housekeepers Connected Workers’ Rights with Reparations and Won Black workers’ freedom is tied to our rights to full citizenship. February 21, 2020 News Release On AFSCME’s Lawsuit Challenging USDOL Final Rule Allowing States to Privatize Employment Services The rule opens the door for private companies to control public-serving functions, with no accountability to the public. February 14, 2020 Blog Trump NLRB Earns an “F” for Proposing to Take Away Graduate Student Workers’ Rights These students are doing work on behalf of and at the direction of the school, for money, and yet they would not be considered employees. February 13, 2020 Blog Fighting Wage Preemption: How Workers Have Lost Billions in Wages and How We Can Restore Local Democracy Workers are losing billions of dollars every year because their state legislatures blocked minimum wage raises workers won at the local level. February 11, 2020 Blog Removing Barriers to Occupational Licensing for D.C. Residents – NELP D.C. Council Testimony February 7, 2020
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
Blog Precarious at Work, Precarious in Health The coronavirus makes clear how difficult life is for underpaid workers in this country—from a lack of paid sick leave to inadequate employer-sponsored health care. March 13, 2020
News Release Congress Must Pass the Families First Coronavirus Response Act Our leaders must act for the sake of workers and families, with a swift vote followed by signing into law. March 12, 2020
Commentary The Hill: Worker Health Is Central to Public Health The coronavirus has shined a light on the fragility and inadequacy of our worker health policies. March 11, 2020
News Release Virginia Approves Raising Minimum Wage to $12 by 2023, With Path to $15 by 2026 Virginia joins 29 other states in raising its minimum wage above the paltry federal floor of $7.25. March 9, 2020
News Release With ‘Joint Employer’ Rule, Trump NLRB Sides with Corporations Again When a company calls the shots at a workplace, it should be responsible to the people who work there. February 25, 2020
Blog Digging up the Root: How UNC Housekeepers Connected Workers’ Rights with Reparations and Won Black workers’ freedom is tied to our rights to full citizenship. February 21, 2020
News Release On AFSCME’s Lawsuit Challenging USDOL Final Rule Allowing States to Privatize Employment Services The rule opens the door for private companies to control public-serving functions, with no accountability to the public. February 14, 2020
Blog Trump NLRB Earns an “F” for Proposing to Take Away Graduate Student Workers’ Rights These students are doing work on behalf of and at the direction of the school, for money, and yet they would not be considered employees. February 13, 2020
Blog Fighting Wage Preemption: How Workers Have Lost Billions in Wages and How We Can Restore Local Democracy Workers are losing billions of dollars every year because their state legislatures blocked minimum wage raises workers won at the local level. February 11, 2020
Blog Removing Barriers to Occupational Licensing for D.C. Residents – NELP D.C. Council Testimony February 7, 2020