325 articles· Covering labor news, worker rights, and workplace policy
The National Labor Relations Board's General Counsel Crystal Stowe Carey issued a memo on August 26 identifying the Cemex precedent—a Biden-era rule enabling unions to organize through card-check campaigns—as a target for reversal, according to FreightWaves.
Labor Policy & LawThe National Labor Relations Board is the independent federal agency that decides whether your employer broke the law when it fired you for talking about wages, interrogated you about a union meeting, or refused to bargain after workers voted to organize.
Labor Policy & LawAmendment 42, approved by Colorado voters in 2006, turned the state's minimum wage into a self-adjusting constitutional provision indexed to the Consumer Price Index for the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro area.
Truck drivers rallied outside the Etobicoke office of Secretary of State for Labour John Zerucelli on September 12, demanding the federal government redirect enforcement of wage-theft laws away from workers and toward the employers violating Canada Labour Code protections, according to Justice for T
Healthcare & LaborThe state of Missouri minimum wage is set through voter-approved ballot initiatives rather than ordinary legislation, a mechanism that carried the rate to $12.30 per hour in 2024 and will push it to $15.00 by January 2026.
Union OrganizingDutch employers' associations announced Friday they will push to redirect 2027 collective bargaining negotiations away from wage increases toward investments in training and artificial intelligence, arguing that productivity gains must precede higher pay.
Workers & the EconomyThree separate legal floors governed what California employers owed their workers during 2025: a $16.50 statewide baseline, a $20.00 fast-food sector rate, and a healthcare scale climbing as high as $23.00 per hour at large hospital systems.
The Trump administration has proposed eliminating the automatic right for more than 2 million federal and D.C.
Workers & the EconomyNorth Carolina's minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, locked to the federal floor under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and it hasn't moved by a single penny since July 24, 2009.
Victoria's parliament is expected to pass legislation this week establishing a statutory right for employees to work from home up to two days weekly, making it the first Australian state to guarantee remote work access despite fierce opposition from major business groups threatening legal challenges
Civil Rights at WorkPennsylvania's minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, the lowest rate any state can legally enforce because it mirrors the federal floor set by the Fair Labor Standards Act.
LaborLab, a workers' rights watchdog organization, released a search tool and cost estimator on September 8 designed to expose the spending patterns of the $1.7 billion union-busting industry, according to The American Prospect.
