Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News Press Clips The Guardian: Trump Vowed to Champion US Workers—the Reality Has Been a Relentless Assault News Release NELP Condemns Trump’s Firing of Thousands of Federal Workers Blog Clear, Grounded, and Resolved: Rising Above the Chaos of the Trump Administration Blog MLK’s Dream vs. Trump-Era Policies: Advancing Workers’ Rights in 2025 Search Filters Topic Type Series Date News Release President-Elect Biden: Workers Demand a Just and Inclusive Economy With workers around the country, we call on our newly elected leaders to fight for a just and inclusive economy. November 7, 2020 News Release On Defending Democracy and Advancing Workers’ Rights at the Ballot Box and Beyond Every vote must be counted. The will of the voters decides elections. November 4, 2020 News Release NELP Decries Confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice This nomination process was an affront to our democracy. October 26, 2020 News Release NELP Files Comments Opposing Labor Department’s Independent Contractor Proposal The proposed rule would permit companies to exclude more workers from minimum wage and overtime. October 26, 2020 Blog Unemployment Payments Are Running Out for Millions, Even as Long-Term Unemployment Surges An acute crisis looms as the number of long-term unemployed workers—people out of work for 26 weeks or longer—is ballooning. October 23, 2020 Blog A Carceral Pandemic: The Normalization of Mass Death and Mass Criminalization As we come into the sixth month of a myriad of overlapping, co-constitutive crises it’s both easy and difficult to forget how vastly unequal the crises have been. October 9, 2020 News Release Report: OSHA Investigated, Resolved Only 2% of COVID Retaliation Complaints More than half the 1,744 retaliation complaints received were dismissed without being investigated. October 8, 2020 News Release Unemployment Systems Floundering Without Worker-Centered Design The report offers recommendations for how states can successfully modernize technology. October 5, 2020 News Release On the House COVID Relief Bill Providing Aid to Unemployed Workers and Ensuring Workplace Safety Protections It’s time to pass a COVID relief bill that rises to the seriousness of this crisis. September 28, 2020 News Release On the SCOTUS Nomination Congress should focus on providing COVID relief, not on forcing through this SCOTUS nomination. September 28, 2020
Press Clips The Guardian: Trump Vowed to Champion US Workers—the Reality Has Been a Relentless Assault
News Release President-Elect Biden: Workers Demand a Just and Inclusive Economy With workers around the country, we call on our newly elected leaders to fight for a just and inclusive economy. November 7, 2020
News Release On Defending Democracy and Advancing Workers’ Rights at the Ballot Box and Beyond Every vote must be counted. The will of the voters decides elections. November 4, 2020
News Release NELP Decries Confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice This nomination process was an affront to our democracy. October 26, 2020
News Release NELP Files Comments Opposing Labor Department’s Independent Contractor Proposal The proposed rule would permit companies to exclude more workers from minimum wage and overtime. October 26, 2020
Blog Unemployment Payments Are Running Out for Millions, Even as Long-Term Unemployment Surges An acute crisis looms as the number of long-term unemployed workers—people out of work for 26 weeks or longer—is ballooning. October 23, 2020
Blog A Carceral Pandemic: The Normalization of Mass Death and Mass Criminalization As we come into the sixth month of a myriad of overlapping, co-constitutive crises it’s both easy and difficult to forget how vastly unequal the crises have been. October 9, 2020
News Release Report: OSHA Investigated, Resolved Only 2% of COVID Retaliation Complaints More than half the 1,744 retaliation complaints received were dismissed without being investigated. October 8, 2020
News Release Unemployment Systems Floundering Without Worker-Centered Design The report offers recommendations for how states can successfully modernize technology. October 5, 2020
News Release On the House COVID Relief Bill Providing Aid to Unemployed Workers and Ensuring Workplace Safety Protections It’s time to pass a COVID relief bill that rises to the seriousness of this crisis. September 28, 2020
News Release On the SCOTUS Nomination Congress should focus on providing COVID relief, not on forcing through this SCOTUS nomination. September 28, 2020
