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The Department of Labor's National Prevailing Wage Center is processing standard OES wage requests filed in March 2026, putting prevailing wage determination processing time at roughly 3 months per case.
Benin's 2017 labor code overhaul cut employer firing costs, legalized indefinite short-term contracts, and produced a 24.5% surge in formal sector employment, while simultaneously reducing job tenure for short-term workers by 0.23 months and shifting economic risk from employers to the workforce.
The Protect America's Workforce Act (H.R. 2550) passed the U.S. House on December 11, 2025, by a 231-195 bipartisan vote.
California's Director of Industrial Relations sets prevailing wage rates for every county and trade classification in the state, drawing primarily from collectively bargained union agreements.
The anthracite coal strike of 1902 ran 163 days, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, and became the first major dispute where a president mediated instead of sending troops. That pattern (federal action only after economic crisis) defines the entire arc of the American labor movement.
Every major rollback of American labor rights has exploited the same structural weakness that Senator Robert Wagner left in his 1935 statute.
The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act has been introduced in four consecutive Congresses. It passed the House once, never reached a Senate floor vote, and changed zero lines of federal labor law.
Signed authorization cards, not secret ballot elections, are now the National Labor Relations Board's preferred method for establishing union representation. The NLRB's August 2023 Cemex decision made majority sign-up the primary recognition path.
Captive audience meetings are deployed in roughly 89% of union organizing campaigns in the United States, and the data shows they cut union election win rates from 73% to 47%.
Amazon warehouse workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island filed their first unfair labor practice charge months before the April 2022 election that made them famous.
Every union digital organizing platform stores names, addresses, phone numbers, employer information, and authorization signatures. A breach of that data hands management a complete map of your organizing committee. These six rules protect your members and your campaign.
Anti-union law firms, third-party persuader consultants, and employer-run internal campaigns form the three pillars of a $1.7 billion annual industry dedicated to stopping workers from organizing.
