Home Newsroom Newsroom Get the latest news from our blogs, op-eds, news releases, and clips. Featured News News Release Minimum Wage Increases Coming in 2026 as Nationwide Affordability Crisis Deepens Blog Defending Worker Safety: Responding to OSHA and MSHA’s Dangerous Rollbacks 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 Search Filters Topic Type Series Date News Release NELP Urges Immediate House Passage of COVID Rescue Plan to Get Resources to Workers Now Inadequate bill means Congress must raise the federal minimum wage and adopt systemic unemployment program reforms to help workers. March 6, 2021 News Release NELP Urges Senate Passage of COVID American Rescue Plan The Senate must move quickly to improve and pass the American Rescue Plan. February 27, 2021 News Release On Federal Legislation Creating a Path to Citizenship for Frontline Immigrant Workers The Citizenship for Essential Workers Act is a testament to the movement for immigrant rights. February 26, 2021 News Release Statement on the Introduction of the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 Recognizing non-citizen immigrants as full participants in this country without the threat of deportation, is an important step toward racial and economic justice. February 19, 2021 News Release FAIR Act Will Help Enforce Workers’ Rights and Ability to Join Together and Fight Back Against Employer and Corporate Wrongdoing The FAIR Act would end corporations’ imposition of forced arbitration and class/collective action waivers in employment and civil rights cases. February 11, 2021 News Release NEW POLLING Commissioned by NELP: Voters Agree—Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $15 Is Good for Everyone Across all demographics, swing district voters confirm that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 is good policy. February 10, 2021 News Release NELP and Allies File Supreme Court Amicus Brief to Defend Labor Organizers’ Access to Worksites An adverse decision could potentially jeopardize regulators' ability to access job sites to enforce critical worker protections. February 10, 2021 News Release Steve Gray Joins the Unemployment Insurance Team at NELP Steve's experience as a UI claimant advocate, academic, and state agency administrator makes him the perfect addition to NELP. February 9, 2021 News Release NELP Urges Senate to Include All Immigrants in COVID Relief Package We need a relief package to build a strong, unified recovery rather than a fragmented, exclusionary, and ineffective one. February 5, 2021 News Release On the Passing of John Sweeney, Former AFL-CIO President Sweeney spent his career making the world a better place for all workers, be they in a union or not. February 3, 2021
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News Release NELP Urges Immediate House Passage of COVID Rescue Plan to Get Resources to Workers Now Inadequate bill means Congress must raise the federal minimum wage and adopt systemic unemployment program reforms to help workers. March 6, 2021
News Release NELP Urges Senate Passage of COVID American Rescue Plan The Senate must move quickly to improve and pass the American Rescue Plan. February 27, 2021
News Release On Federal Legislation Creating a Path to Citizenship for Frontline Immigrant Workers The Citizenship for Essential Workers Act is a testament to the movement for immigrant rights. February 26, 2021
News Release Statement on the Introduction of the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 Recognizing non-citizen immigrants as full participants in this country without the threat of deportation, is an important step toward racial and economic justice. February 19, 2021
News Release FAIR Act Will Help Enforce Workers’ Rights and Ability to Join Together and Fight Back Against Employer and Corporate Wrongdoing The FAIR Act would end corporations’ imposition of forced arbitration and class/collective action waivers in employment and civil rights cases. February 11, 2021
News Release NEW POLLING Commissioned by NELP: Voters Agree—Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $15 Is Good for Everyone Across all demographics, swing district voters confirm that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 is good policy. February 10, 2021
News Release NELP and Allies File Supreme Court Amicus Brief to Defend Labor Organizers’ Access to Worksites An adverse decision could potentially jeopardize regulators' ability to access job sites to enforce critical worker protections. February 10, 2021
News Release Steve Gray Joins the Unemployment Insurance Team at NELP Steve's experience as a UI claimant advocate, academic, and state agency administrator makes him the perfect addition to NELP. February 9, 2021
News Release NELP Urges Senate to Include All Immigrants in COVID Relief Package We need a relief package to build a strong, unified recovery rather than a fragmented, exclusionary, and ineffective one. February 5, 2021
News Release On the Passing of John Sweeney, Former AFL-CIO President Sweeney spent his career making the world a better place for all workers, be they in a union or not. February 3, 2021
