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The Federal administration’s assault against worker rights and civil liberties intensifies
April 1st, 2025
While continuing to pursue its anti-union and pro-corporate agenda, the Federal administration recently rescinded multiple legal measures that addressed chronic problems with government contracting. The current administration rescinded Executive Orde…
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Rather than protecting employees as promised on the campaign trail, the President already has fired tens of thousands of essential workers while attacking employee rights and the rule of law generally
March 3rd, 2025
The Federal administration wasted no time mounting its comprehensive assault against the legal system governing the workplace generally and the core rights and key protections for millions of employees specifically. Since day one for the new Federal…
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The extremism of the new (old) Federal administration on immediate display
February 3rd, 2025
In its first week, the incoming Federal administration took radical action in numerous ways. For example, it revoked Executive Order 11246 – which both Republican and Democratic administrations enforced for 60 years to uncover and eliminate discrim…
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Project 2025, prepared by senior members of the past and future Trump administrations, creates roadmap to attack fundamental rights and subvert the rule of law
January 7th, 2025
In nearly 1,000 pages, Project 2025 provides detailed analyses and urges specific actions to impose a comprehensively extreme plan across the nation. As explained in a recent report, implementation of Project 2025 would concentrate unprecedented powe…
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Like Minnesota and other visionary states, the NLRB now outlaws employer captive audience meetings
December 2nd, 2024
In recent years, states across the United States – including New York, Illinois, California, and Hawaii – have enacted captive audience meeting laws that prohibit mandatory employee meetings about employers’ political or religious positions. As…
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Rule of law on the ballot
November 1st, 2024
The Federal courts describe the rule of law as “a principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, independently adjudicated, and consistent with international hu…
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Biden Administration reinforces policies promoting better labor and environmental standards
October 3rd, 2024
President Joe Biden recently signed an Executive Order that requires Federal agencies to include and enforce pro-union standards as part of their contracting and other investments to address climate change as well as infrastructure and domestic manuf…
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Federal inter-agency cooperation expands to combat corporate abuses
September 3rd, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC)” and the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) have enhanced their coordination with the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) and the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) to improve th…
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The positive impact of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act
August 19th, 2024
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is one of the most pro-employer Federal appellate courts in the United States, recently rendered an important decision that bodes well for the future prosecution of sex harassment claims. In Famuyide v. Chip…
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The Supreme Court’s end-of-term majority opinions threaten the rule of law
July 8th, 2024
On the heels of the majority opinion issued by the Supreme Court in Starbucks v. McKinney, analyzed here, the majority opinion given by the Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo declared that Federal courts can no longer defer to the…
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