Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News Blog NELP Denounces DOL’s Proposed Joint Employment Rule News Release NELP Welcomes Three Leading Experts to New Senior Policy Roles Blog Juneteenth and the Next Chapter in the Fight for Workers’ Rights Blog Why Today’s Graduates Need a Jobseekers’ Allowance Search Filters Topic Type Series Date Press Clips The New Yorker: What Will DOGE’s Moves on Government Agencies Mean for OSHA? Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department. February 10, 2025 Press Clips Truthout: As Trump Attacks Federal Labor Protections, How Can States Protect Workers? From limits on heat exposure to overtime rules, states can fill in some gaps as Trump dismantles federal protections. February 9, 2025 News Release January Jobs Report: Job Growth Slows, Civil Rights Rollbacks Threaten Progress The Trump administration’s attacks on civil rights are calculated to drag us backward. February 7, 2025 Blog Clear, Grounded, and Resolved: Rising Above the Chaos of the Trump Administration Our movement for workers’ rights is focused on truth, powered by action, and united by a vision for justice that so many before us have fought for. February 3, 2025 Press Clips Inequality.org: 8 Ways States Can Fight Inequality and Build Worker Power As a war on immigrants and the working class rages in Washington, state governments should use every tool at their disposal to advance a more equitable economy. February 3, 2025 Press Clips Bloomberg Law: Franchisers Seize GOP Sweep as Opportunity on Joint Employer NELP's Cathy Ruckelshaus discussed the latest effort to gut joint employer liability. February 3, 2025 News Release Trump Fires EEOC Commissioners Burrows and Samuels in Another Outrageous Attack on Civil Rights and Rule of Law These firings mean the EEOC will not have a quorum and cannot take votes on policy or enforcement of civil rights laws. January 28, 2025 Press Clips AP: Firings, Freezes and Layoffs: A Look at Trump’s Moves Against Federal Employees and Programs Trump fired the NLRB's acting chair, Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve as an NLRB member. January 28, 2025 News Release In Unprecedented Attack on Workers and the Rule of Law, Trump Fires NLRB Member Wilcox President Trump has fired National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented attack on workers and the rule of law. January 28, 2025 Press Clips AP: Fast Food Is a Staple of American Culture, but Some of Its Workers Struggle to Survive Millions of fast-food workers across the U.S.--two-thirds of them women--are scraping to get by. January 25, 2025
Press Clips The New Yorker: What Will DOGE’s Moves on Government Agencies Mean for OSHA? Unions took to the streets—and the courts—to try to keep Elon Musk’s initiative out of the Labor Department. February 10, 2025
Press Clips Truthout: As Trump Attacks Federal Labor Protections, How Can States Protect Workers? From limits on heat exposure to overtime rules, states can fill in some gaps as Trump dismantles federal protections. February 9, 2025
News Release January Jobs Report: Job Growth Slows, Civil Rights Rollbacks Threaten Progress The Trump administration’s attacks on civil rights are calculated to drag us backward. February 7, 2025
Blog Clear, Grounded, and Resolved: Rising Above the Chaos of the Trump Administration Our movement for workers’ rights is focused on truth, powered by action, and united by a vision for justice that so many before us have fought for. February 3, 2025
Press Clips Inequality.org: 8 Ways States Can Fight Inequality and Build Worker Power As a war on immigrants and the working class rages in Washington, state governments should use every tool at their disposal to advance a more equitable economy. February 3, 2025
Press Clips Bloomberg Law: Franchisers Seize GOP Sweep as Opportunity on Joint Employer NELP's Cathy Ruckelshaus discussed the latest effort to gut joint employer liability. February 3, 2025
News Release Trump Fires EEOC Commissioners Burrows and Samuels in Another Outrageous Attack on Civil Rights and Rule of Law These firings mean the EEOC will not have a quorum and cannot take votes on policy or enforcement of civil rights laws. January 28, 2025
Press Clips AP: Firings, Freezes and Layoffs: A Look at Trump’s Moves Against Federal Employees and Programs Trump fired the NLRB's acting chair, Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman to serve as an NLRB member. January 28, 2025
News Release In Unprecedented Attack on Workers and the Rule of Law, Trump Fires NLRB Member Wilcox President Trump has fired National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented attack on workers and the rule of law. January 28, 2025
Press Clips AP: Fast Food Is a Staple of American Culture, but Some of Its Workers Struggle to Survive Millions of fast-food workers across the U.S.--two-thirds of them women--are scraping to get by. January 25, 2025
