Joe Biden was the first president to join a union picket line and support labor’s side in a number of major disputes. His appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, the principal ...

Ninety years ago this summer, Congress passed legislation hailed at the time and for many years after as “labor’s Magna Carta.” The Wagner Act — or, more formally, the National Labor Relations Act — ...

The National Labor Relations Board affirmed a ruling that Starbucks violated the National Labor Relations Act by changing dress code policy enforcement without providing the union an opportunity to ...

Labor disputes in the US date back to before the Revolutionary War. The first recorded strike over working conditions took place in 1636 on Richmond Island, Maine, when fishermen protested that their ...

On Tuesday, June 9, 2026, the House of Representatives passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act by a vote of 230-191. The union-supported bill ...

Jewel-Osco’s pharmacy division argued this month that the structure of the National Labor Relations Board, the body that enforces federal labor law in the U.S., is unconstitutional. Osco, which was ...

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act), enacted in 1935, is the cornerstone of private-sector labor law in the United States. Section 7 of the NLRA guarantees employees the right to ...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has filed a lawsuit against New York State and its Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in federal court, accusing the state of passing an illegal new ...

Et tu, academe? At a time when national labor law is under attack, even its supposed defenders have their knives out. Last month, a group of labor law professors and economists filed a brief in ...