News Releases | July 31, 2018

USDA Urged to Reject Line-Speed-Increase Requests from Poultry Plants

The poultry facilities’ request to operate at faster line speeds than allowable by law endangers both workers and consumers.

News Releases | July 31, 2018

Report: U.S. Corporations Splurge on Stock Buybacks While Worker Wages Stagnate

McDonald’s could pay its 1.9 million workers $4K more per year with the money it spent on buybacks.

News Releases | July 26, 2018

On 12 States’ Lawsuit Challenging DOL Rule Undermining Affordable Care Act

The misguided Labor Department rule allows groups of employers to offer health plans exempt from core ACA consumer protections.

News Releases | July 25, 2018

On Eleventh Circuit Reviving NAACP Suit Calling Alabama Wage Law Racially Biased

Workers, communities of color, advocates, and our courts will not allow preemption to deny local communities the very basic right(…)

News Releases | July 19, 2018

On New York State’s Employee Status Ruling for New York Uber Drivers

A state agency ruled that three former Uber drivers (and others like them) were employees for purposes of unemployment insurance.

News Releases | July 12, 2018

On HHS’s Proposed Rule Interfering with Home Care Workers’ Ability to Pay Their Union Dues

Yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine the ability of America’s workers to join together.

News Releases | July 2, 2018

On New York City’s Report Urging Higher Pay for Uber and Lyft Drivers

Today’s report echoes what driver-members of the Taxi Workers Alliance in New York, as well as drivers across the country,(…)

News Releases | June 27, 2018

On the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Janus v. AFSCME

The Supreme Court has further tipped the scales of justice against working people with this decision.

News Releases | June 21, 2018

On the Trump Administration’s Proposal to Merge U.S. Depts. of Labor, Education

This misguided proposal deserves to land with a thud in Congress.

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