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What “Just Cause” Really Means and Why Workers Need It Now More Than Ever Most U.S. workers can be fired for almost any reason under the at-will system. But imagine a workplace where termination had to be fair, documented, and based on real evidence instead of personal bias, convenience, or political pressure. That’s what just […]

Year In Review: Trump’s 2025 Record on Employee Rights If you care about labor and employment law issues, you should down a stiff drink and then contemplate this incomplete list of Trump’s destruction of those rights during the first ten months of his second term:  Employment discrimination  Trump revoked Executive Order 11246, issued by Pres. […]

Candidate Spotlight: Jon Ossoff Senior U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia is one of the first senate candidates  the SU4W PAC supported and is currently being considered for support again as he runs for re-election.  In his last election in 2020, Ossoff, along with junior Sen. Raphael Warnock, set new “firsts” for Georgia, as Ossoff […]

Riding a wave of resistance to the hard-right policies of Donald Trump’s Administration, Democratic candidates won decisively in every special election across the U.S. on November 4th. Most notably, the election victories include: the first woman to become governor of Virginia a second woman governor candidate in New Jersey a democratic socialist as mayor of […]

Nearly 20% of U.S. businesses have cancelled efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) among their workforce since the latest presidential election, according to a recent report by Resume.org. In addition to this, approximately 1/5 of the 965 executives polled in the survey found their employee morale, performance and recruitment have suffered. Other outcomes […]

It was March 29, 2016, less than one week after North Carolina’s then-governor, Pat McCrory, had signed HB 2 into law. That bill required transgender students and adults in public buildings to use restrooms corresponding to the gender assigned to them at birth. As North Carolina’s attorney general for eight years, Roy Cooper had defended […]

“It’s the economy, stupid,” said James Carville in 1992 when describing Bill Clinton’s winning economic message. In 2024, Donald Trump was able to convince a small majority of Americans that he had a winning economic appeal, despite the Biden administration’s four-year recovery from the depths of the COVID-induced economic downturn in 2020 and 2021.  What […]

Why is Aftyn Behn running for Congress? “I’m a pissed-off social worker in the South,” Tenn. State Representative Behn explained to CNN’s Audie Cornish.  “I think for me, it’s a moment where people are angry, I’m angry.  I’m upset that my constituents are losing their benefits.  I’m upset that people are struggling to afford the […]

With key races being won, we’re reminded that every ballot cast shapes the future of our rights. For workers, the policies that protect fair wages, safe workplaces, and equal opportunity are decided at every level of government, from city council to Congress, making all elections over the next year critical. This election season is about […]

As it appears on NELA’s website. The act would eliminate statutory damage caps and enhance protections for workers in discrimination cases For Immediate ReleaseContact: Andrea [email protected] Concord, Calif. – May 8, 2024 – Today, in a significant milestone for workers’ rights, Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced the […]