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The pending rulemakings involve legal questions that are frequently tested in Dept. of Labor investigations and in class actions pitting plaintiff’s attorneys and unions against management: contractor status, joint employment and tipped wages.

The Supreme Court heard an important case today challenging California's Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which allows union organizers to enter farms to talk to workers. The plaintiffs had a sympathetic Court but may have overreached their case.

Talk of Joe Biden as a transformational president is getting ahead of itself. Historically, labor law reform has triggered some of the fiercest battles from business — and Joe Biden has shown no evidence he’ll go to the mat for the PRO Act...

When Rank and File Postal Workers Whipped Bosses, Union Leaders, and Richard Nixon

Where do we go in the coming year? We hope to begin to turn vision into reality. To not only turn the page, but to begin a new chapter.

Health care workers are crucial to our society, yet we reward them with low wages and dangerous conditions.

Misogyny and white supremacy empower white nationalists to acts of violence, and policymakers to exclude women and immigrants from workplace protections. "We will hold the women and their coworkers and their grieving loved ones in our hearts."

Education, health and union leaders announced Monday they have signed off on guidelines to bring more students back to campus at Hawaii’s public schools, especially at the elementary level.

The question is whether even a supportive president can reverse the decline in union power that economists say has helped hollow out America's middle class. Neither organized labor nor sympathetic politicians have managed to do that for decades.

Kurt Stand reviews Union Made, Eric Lotke's latest book.