Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know Press Clips The American Prospect: How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away Blog Workers Can’t Wait for Protections from Heat Search Filters Topic Type Series Date 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 Workers Demand True Flexibility with Full Employment Protections Workers' demands and organizing efforts will deliver true flexibility and economic security. November 7, 2022 News Release October Jobs Report: Disparities Persist as Unemployment Ticks Up Despite continued job gains, the number of unemployed workers increased by 306,000. November 4, 2022
Blog Unemployment Insurance and the Government Shutdown: What Federal Workers and Contractors Need to Know
Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away
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 Workers Demand True Flexibility with Full Employment Protections Workers' demands and organizing efforts will deliver true flexibility and economic security. November 7, 2022
News Release October Jobs Report: Disparities Persist as Unemployment Ticks Up Despite continued job gains, the number of unemployed workers increased by 306,000. November 4, 2022
