Join Our Team: Now Hiring An Organizing & Network Director
The People’s Parity Project (PPP) seeks a creative, self-motivated, and strategic Organizing & Network Director to join a growing team and lead the organization’s work building, supporting, and emboldening a diverse community of lawyers and law students dedicated...
Garden Staters Against O’Hearn
Christine O’Hearn has been nominated to become the newest federal district court judge in New Jersey. Her career accomplishments rest on defending discrimination and preventing unionization.New Jersey Senators delayed the filling of this vacancy for 2 years,...
Emergency Phone Bank to #StopSingas
New York Governor Cuomo recently nominated Madeline Singas—a notoriously tough-on-crime prosecutor who spent her career at the Queens DA office that withheld exculpatory evidence and who has personally written about wanting to water down New York’s new (and...
New Yorkers! Stop the Legislature from Siding with Uber & Lyft and Swindling New York Workers
Big corporations like Uber and Lyft have a long history of mistreating and cheating their workers. Now these same companies are behind a bill in New York that would roll back rights that have been fought for by gig workers and advocates. The worst part is that these...
Ask Your Representative to Cosponsor the FAIR Act to #EndForcedArbitration
On February 11, 2021, the House Judiciary Committee held the first hearing in over a year on the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act. The FAIR Act would stop companies from forcing workers and consumers into arbitration, a privatized “justice” system that...
Just learned that one of our major local law firms that is prominently featured as a sponsor of bar association events and legal aid organizations spends its days defending major corporations against veterans' mesothelioma claims. Love this for us
It bears repeating over and over and over again that forced arbitration is central to abuses of corporate power. It squelches private enforcement, and we're left with public enforcement agencies that don't have anywhere near the resources to attack these issues alone. https://twitter.com/leah_nylen/status/1600173553420099589
@FTC Chair Khan speaking at the WSJ CEO Council this AM on taking on the biggest companies: The FTC is “entirely outgunned, especially when we are up against some of the most formidable and wealthiest and most powerful companies in America."
Funding for the NLRB has been static since 2014, even as petitions to form a union are up 58% in 2022 compared with 2021.
If we don't fully fund the NLRB, the laws that protect unionizing workers go unenforced. Tell your senators that's unacceptable: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fund-the-nlrb/
No serious person can believe that firms that make their money by defending corporations who destroy the environment and exploit workers are hostile to conservatism - they are its main defenders.
"What the Court of Appeals does affects the same sweep of life and law that the Supreme Court does. Courts like this need diversity of experience. They need judges in their collective who come in with different sensitivities and appreciations." https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/ny-state-of-politics/2022/11/29/hochul-s-chief-judge-pick-will-be-closely-watched