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**Principles for a Just and Sustainable Economy**

May 1, 2023 Sharon Block and Yoorie Chang

On International Workers' Day, the Clean Slate for Worker Power reflects on the intersection of the labor, climate, and racial justice movements in its report "Exploratory Principles: Making Progress for People and the Planet."

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. […]

July 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the Supreme Court released two landmark decisions striking at the heart of federal employment law. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, No. 19–431, the Court ruled 7-2 to uphold two Trump administration rules expanding existing religious exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer contraception mandate. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence […]

June 24, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Clean Slate for Worker Power released a report today outlining recommendations for empowering worker voices and building a more equitable economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The report focuses on various threats COVID poses to working people: not just threats to health and safety, but also limits on worker organizing imposed by social […]

Worker Voice Beyond Wages, Hours and Terms and Conditions of Employment

Jan 17, 2019 Sharon Block

This week, United Teachers Los Angeles called their first strike in decades. While the parties are negotiating over wages and staffing, a central issue in the dispute is the much bigger question of underfunding of the public school system. Teachers are asking for smaller class sizes, repairs to crumbling school buildings, and the hiring of […]

New Work Towards a New Labor Law

Aug 16, 2018 Sharon Block

The New York Times editorial last week celebrating the landslide victory of the ballot initiative to repeal Missouri’s right-to-work (for less) law was entitled, “The Wind at Labor’s Back.” Those words haven’t been put together in that order in a long time, as we have witnessed a decades-long decline in the size, power, and vitality […]

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Principles for a Just and Sustainable Economy

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

July 9, 2020

June 24, 2020

Worker Voice Beyond Wages, Hours and Terms and Conditions of Employment

New Work Towards a New Labor Law