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April 30, 2023
News & Commentary

Will Ebeler

Hollywood braces for a Writers Guild strike; New York’s tentative budget includes a higher minimum wage; a union decertification petition is filed at a Buffalo, New York Starbucks store

July 1, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news and commentary: the Supreme Court threatens Biden’s climate agenda and other executive branch policymaking in West Virginia v. EPA; the Court denies cert to a state Covid-19 vaccine challenge; most employers do not plan on covering abortion-related travel costs; labor agencies receive budget increases; and Biden’s top labor advisor resigns. Yesterday, the […]

September 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

The House Ways and Means Committee circulated a proposal that would raise $2.9 trillion in revenue as congressional Democrats continue to debate the scope of their signature spending package, the Washington Post reports. Much of that would come from tax increases on large corporations and wealthy individuals, though the increases are less than those proposed […]

Clean Slate for Budget Reconciliation: How Democrats Can Reform Labor Rights, Even with the Filibuster

Feb 11, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

President Joe Biden’s ambitious pro-worker agenda is confronting a cruel legislative reality. Thanks to the Senate filibuster—a parliamentary maneuver that blocks legislation indefinitely barring a 60-vote override—Democrats’ razor-thin Senate margins make it exceedingly difficult for President Biden to deliver on his pledge to pass the recently reintroduced PRO Act and other Clean Slate Project reforms. […]

February 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

On Monday, President Trump’s administration “proposed deep spending cuts” in the U.S. Labor Department’s budget for the second consecutive year. The administration requested a 21% budget reduction over current levels for fiscal year 2019. In particular, reductions in funding for job training and placement programs, training and employment service programs, and Job Corps programs for […]

May 25, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The Department of Labor has taken formal steps towards repealing the ‘persuader rule,’ a regulation that has been in full effect for less than a year. As we summarized last May, the persuader rule was the Obama Department of Labor’s attempt to plug a loophole in the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act: it extends […]

May 24, 2017
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

President Trump released his budget yesterday, and it proposed sharp reductions in spending for entitlement programs. The budget also included a cut of 19.8 percent in funding for the Department of Labor. Despite decreases in funding to the Department, the budget includes a proposal for a paid family leave program, which would allow states to grant six […]

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