• Fight for the Right to Vote: Recap of the NLG LEC Webinar "Defending Voting Rights in 2020." The Voting Rights Working Group will meet Friday, September 11 at 9am PT/11am CT/12pm ET 
  
• Police Unions: What is to Be Done? CLE Workshop on September 23 at 10am-1pm ET / 12-3pm CT / 1-4pm ET
• "Holding Uber and Lyft Accountable" by Stacey Leyton
• "DOJ Pushes White Supremacist Policy on Campus" by M.S.M.R.

• What Does NAFTA 2.0 Mean for Workers' Rights? by Jeffrey Vogt
• What We're Fighting For: Teachers and other school employees strike to preserve public schools, by Christine Campbell
• Why Educators in North Carolina are Going Back to Raleigh on May 1, by Michelle Burton
• USMCA - Canadian Labour Law Perspectives, by Claude Melancon & Simon Archer, CALL-ACAMS
• United Teachers - Los Angeles 2019 Strike: One for the Ages, by Ira L. Gottlieb
• Updates from Sugar Law, by John Philo
• Organizing Workers in the Gig Economy 
• Immigrants' Rights are Labor Rights
• Save the Labor & Education Research Center
• Send us your ideas for the annual NLG Conference
• See you at the LCC!

• Join us at the Law for the People Convention in Portland, Oregon, October 31 - November 4. A calendar of events is in the Newsletter, including our Workshop: Teachers Strikes: Workers, Students & Our Communities
• The Right Wing's Plans to Destroy Public Schooling: Why defending public schools from corporate attacks matters to all of us, by Prof. Gordon Lafer
• Los Angeles Chapter Report
• Information about our the 20th Anniversary 2019 Cuba Delegation
• Meet our Student Committee
• Mentorship Program Announcement

May 2018

• Join us at the LCC Conference in Atalnta 
• Social Justice and Progressive Unionism: Bargaining to improve conditions for women workers at Sierra Club by Larry Williams Jr.
• We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: West Virginia's women know what they are worth by Sarah David Heydemann
• #MeToo: Standing Up to Abuse in the Hospitatliy Sector and Beyond by Susan Minato
• Elections Matter: Join the Fight Against Racial Voter Supression by Jeanne Mirer
• Reclaiming the Red and Purple States: Unions' and Workers' Role in the Resistance by Joan Hill
• This Land is Our Land: Organizing in the Central Valley and the country's heartland by Fran Schreiberg

August 2017

• Join us at the NLG Convention in Washington, DC
• Green, Blue & Black: Environmentalists support Nissan workers' organizing drive by Dean Hubbard
• Will You Represent TUPOCC?
• Protecting Human Rights in the Trump Era
• Updates from Sugar Law by John Philo
• Ba da ba ba baaa ... We're Not Loving It by Dean Hubbard

May 2017

• Where to find us at the LCC in Denver 2017
• Winning back key battlegrounds in 2018 -- How to rebuild progressive multiracial majorities in OH, PA and beyond by Eric Dillon, Working America
• Cuba Si!
• Build the resistance and build a majority -- Organizing in the Central Valley and the country's heartland by Fran Schreiberg
• The new joint employer rule:  How significant? by George Gonos
• Seeking authors for the NLG Guide to Labor Law by Elise Gautier
• Organizing to defend immigrant workers in LA County by Ariella Morrison
• Join us for breakfast at the LCC in Denver 5/16/2017 and for our meeting (open to all) on 5/15/2017 (both ridiculously early)

August 2016

• Fighting Uber-Exploitation in NYC by Zubin Soleimany
• Rebuilding Detroit from the Grass Roots Up - Using the Democratic Process to See that the Community's Needs are Met by John Philo
• LA STORY:  the Workers Rights Committee Returns by Ben O'Donnell
• Know Your Economic Human Rights! - announcing CLE August 4 at NLG Convention in NYC
• Knowledge is Not Power - Knowing your rights and Using Them is

May 2016

• Everything Old is New Again -- Using Section 7 to Support Worker Centers by Eli Naduris-Weissman
•     Working with ROC (Restaurant Opportunity Center)
•     Building a relationship with a worker center near you
• Cuba Si -- L&E delegation sees firsthand how Cuba's relations with the U.S. are changing in advance of President Obama's historic visit
• Developing Solidarity at B&H Photo by Jeanne Mirer
• Democracy, Teachers' Rights & Privatization -- Inequality, "Education Reform" and Vergara
•  Join our project to do Section 7 training

October 2015

•  From "Right-to-Work" to "Fight for 15" -- The Labor Movement at the Crossroads:  Learning Lessons, Plotting the Way Forward by Anthony Prince
• Turning the Tide:  Fighting the Nationwide Assault on Low-Income Workers by John Philo
• Art Heitzer to receive the Debra Evenson Award
• Workers' Rights are Human Rights
• What We Need to Do:  Remarks at ALAL's Sao Paulo Congress by Anthony Prince
• Our Best Hope by Aaron Mair, Estela Vazquez & Lenore Friedlaender
• ROCking the House
• Street Vending:  Challenging the Criminalization of Workers by Cynthia Anderson-Barker
• NLG Convention - annotated schedule for L&ECers

 April 2015

•  "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and LEC's Local Strategy for Attacking Unions by Brendan Fischer
• Two and a Half Cheers for Bankruptcy:  Detroit City Retirees Avoid the Worst While Lenders Get a Buzz Cut by Ursula Levelt
• Cuba in Transition by Matthew Rinaldi
• Resolution Calling for an End to the U.S. Embargo of Cuba
• Kicking Them When They're Down:  Corporate America and Its Allies Make Life Even Harder for the Unemployed by Tony Paris
• Join Us! - Work with Us on our Section 7 Rights Project to assist legal aid offices and other advocacy groups and employment lawyers who work with unorganized low-wage workers

 September 2014

• Bringing Labor Law into the 21st Century:  Dealing with the Realities of the Modern Workplace by Henry Willis
• NLG Convention - annotated schedule for L&ECers
• Chicago Labor History Tour
• Using Human Rights to Defend Workers' Standard of Living - mini-CLE in Chicago Sep 4, 2014

 April 2014

•  Food Fight - A report from the field on the fight against sweatshop conditions in the food industry by Ursula Levelt
• The Legal Services NYC Strike:  Neoliberalism, Austerity & Resistance by Tyler Kasperek Somes
• Workers, Communities, and the Clean Energy Economy:  Working Together For a Future that Works by Dean Hubbard
• Cuba Report

October 2013 

• Making The Road by Walking - The AFL-CIO Takes a Major Step to Transform the Labor Movement by Victor Narro
• Privatizing Democracy in Detroit: Constitutional Rights, Civil Rights And Labor Rights Under Siege In Michigan by John Philo
• The Puerto Rican Labor Movement in 2013 by Luis Pedraza Leduc
• Honoring Ann Fagan Ginger

 
May 2013

•  Warehouse Workers for Justice:  An Alternative Organizing Model by Margot Nikitas
• D.R. Horton:  Is There Life After Concepcion? by Ursula Levelt
• See you in San Juan! - announcing the NLG Convention in Puerto Rico October 23 - 27, 2013
• Support Legal Services Workers - on strike now

 October 2012

• Forward into the past? by Sanjukta Paul (an examination of how modern "independent contractors" resemble a feudal system)
• Segregating American Citizenship: Latino Voter Disenfranchisement in 2012 by The Advancement Project
• Fighting Wage Theft by Daniel Gross

• Occupy Labor Law! by Ursula Levelt
• Voter Suppresion - Why It Matters by Dean Hubbard 
• D.R. Horton: The NLRB Enters the Fight Over Class Action Waivers by Henry Willis
• Occupy Labor Law: What Labor Can Learn

• We Are All Wisconsin:  The Stakes Get Even Higher by Dean Hubbard
• Walkout at Hershey:  Extracts from the Report of the August 2011 Human Rights Delegation to Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Solidarity Forever
• Defending Democracy by Tova Perlmutter
• Learning by Teaching - The Guild's Mentoring Program by Fran Schreiberg
• NLG 2011 Convention in Philadelphia - Schedule of L&EC related events

• The attack on Public Sector Workers:  Ground Zero for Democracy and Human Rights by Dean Hubbard
• NLG L&EC Breakfast at the LCC - Crimes Against Labor:  Attacks on Workers' Rights in Mexico & US by Henry Willis
• Worker Advocates Fight for Expanded Useof Crime Victim's Visa by Jessie Hahn
• Mexican Mineworkers Union's Carlos Esquer Speaks in NYC by Ursula Levelt
• NLG L&EC Successfully Concludes 12th Delegation to Cuba by Joan Hill
• 100 Years After Triangle Fire, the Slaughter Continues by Anthony Prince 

• March with Labor and One Nation for Jobs, Justice and Education for All
  October 2 in Washington DC
• Defending Free Speech Rights in Public Places
• ILO Takes Steps Toward Establishing Domestic Workers Rights
• ICLR Assists Mexico's Independent Labor Movement
• Information is Key to Ending Abusive Low-Wage Labor Migration Schemes
• NY Public Employees Fight Furloughs
• Carwash Workers Win Another Victory, Pirian Brothers Sentenced to Year in Jail

• Countering the Glen Beck Effect: Working America Reaches the Working Class
• New Illinois Wage Theft Legislation Protects Workers
• Sugar Law Center Supports Restaurant Opportunities Center
• Sugar Law Center Assists the Unemployed
• Whistleblower Laws Show U.S. Falls Short of International Human Rights Standards
• Farmworker Advocates Praise the Department of Labor's New H-2A Regulations
• Zenroren Honors Haymarket Martyrs on May Day

• Car Wash Workers Campaign Wins Victories
• Worker Center Activities - Help Wanted
• Opinion - Capitalism Is Bad for Your Health?
• Update from the Sugar Law Center
• Eleventh Annual Cuba Visit Promises Exciting Developments
• Visa Approval Appears Likely for Cuban Labor Society VP to Make Historic Appearance at NLG Seattle Convention
• CLE at NLG Seattle Convention - Fighting for Justice
• The Great Pension Rip-Off

• They Stood Up by Sitting Down
• Harvest of Blame: Murder in the 105th Degree
• Brandworkers and Unions Beat Back RICO Lawsuits
• Global Workers Justice Alliance - Accessing Jusice Across Borders
• Tenth Annual Cuba Visit Expresses Hope for Real Change
• CA State Bar Fails to Honor Boycott at Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego
• Update from the Sugar Law Center

• No-Match Rules: the Saga Continues
• Southern California Car Wash Workers Fight for Better Working Conditions
• Campaign 2008: A Society that Works for All
• Guild Labor & Employment Committee Teams Up with Brand Workers
• Chicago Federation of Labor Hosts Conferenceto Prevent Wrongful Termination Based on No-Match Letters No Match Rules
• NELP Launches New National Wage & Hour Clearinghouse
• Another Side to Race & Immigration

• The Cuban 5 - Legal Abuse Masquerades as National Security
• Major Whistleblower Protection Bill Moves Through Congress:Grassroots Activism Urgently Needed
• Just Cause in China

• Guild Lawyers Participate in Human Rights Delegation to Oaxaca

• Guild Follows Up with Support for Human Rights Organizations

• AFL-CIO Enters Groundbreaking Partnership with National Day Laborers Organizing Network
• Victory for UNITE HERE Local 2
• L&EC Summer Project Supports UNITE HERE
• Legitimacy & Legality: Fighting for Work in Argentina
• Who's the Boss at Kentucky River? NLRB Refuses to Hear the Voice of Labor
• Sugar Law Center Supports Union's Struggles Against Walmart - Defends Workers' Rights
• Highlights of the 2006 NLG Convention

• Gulf Coast Hurricane Survivors Ask International Body to Investigate
• NLG Sugar Law Center to Pursue Wage & Hour Cases
• Fusion Voting: A Cure for What Ails Our Political System
• Winning & Losing a Strike
• The Transit Workers Violated No Law
• New Trade Union Initiative Launched in India
• Seventh L&EC Delegation to Cuba Convenes in Santiago
• Court Settlement Touted as Breakthrough: FLOC Wins Major Victory
• New Mexico Law Suit Filed to Prohibit Classifying Farmworkers as Independent Contractors
• Teach Your Children Well
• Immigration Law Review The Heat Is On

• The House of Labor Divided - AFL-CIO and Change to Win
• Resisting Wal-Mart: Canadian Wal-Mart Employees Take a Stand Against Anti-Union Tactics
• NLG, ALAL, ANAD and SNTSS Will Coordinate Efforts in the Fight for International Workers' Rights

• Building a Stronger Labor Movement: The Rebirth of Worker Centers
• NYC L&EC Chapter Hosts Presentation on Walmart's Anti-Labor Practices
• Bay Area L&EC Actively Supporting Sweatfree Ordinance in San Francisco
• Sixth Labor & Employment Committee Delegation to Cuba Convenes in Havana
• Labor Organizations Internationally Oppose Mexican Government's Labor Law Reform Package
• Students Urge the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Declare that Discrimination Resulting from Hoffman Plastic Violates Human Rights
• Ivory Tower Sweatshops Endorsed by Bush NLRB
• To Make a Long Story Short - The Life and Times of Arbitrator Sam Kagel

• State of the Union: Labor Issues and the 2004 Election
• Civil Rights Attorneys Concerned by Justice Department Role in 2004 Election
• When the Chips are Down - We'll Be There; Labor and Allies Protect the Right to Vote
• CBTU says Black Workers Hit First and Hardest by Unemployment
• Farmworkers Organize in North Carolina!
• NLG Protects Students' Right to Vote; NLG Students Face Down Fox News in Arizona
• Global Solidarity - L&EC Donates to Botswana Mining Workers
• Smith v. City of Jackson, MS
• L&E committee Announces 6th Bilateral/3rd International Professional Research Exchange in Cuba

• 2004 Elections - What's At Stake - What's Our Role
• When the Chips Are Down - We'll Be There
• Coca-Cola - The Drink That Represses
• Protecting Immigrant Workers' Rights to Workers' Comensation post-Hoffman Plastic: Wheat NLG Lawyers Need to Know
• The Living Wage Movement Comes of Age
• NLG Members Observe El Salvador Election
• Farmworkers to be Paid for Travel Time

October 2003

• 2003 Convention Panel Highlights War on Workers
• Patriotism is Defending the Bill of Rights
• L&E Committee Announces 5th Bilateral/2nd International Professional Exchange in Cuba
• L&E International Solidarity Work: The Dominican Republic
• Defending Workers' Human Rights in a Global Economy: Report from Inaugural Meeting of International Commission for Labor Rights

• Support Our Troops by Bringing Them Home Now! Urge a UN Negotiated Cease Fire
• A view From US Labor Against the War
• Help Our Brothers and Sisters at Dish Network
• New Mexico State Bar Employees File RC Petition with NLRB
• Hoffman Plastic Compounds v. NLRB ; Immigrant Workers: Preserving Rights and Remedies
• Coca-Cola Human Rights Abuses in Colombia

• AFL-CIO Executive Secretary Richard Trumka Links NLG and AFL-CIO Struggles for Economic Justice and Workers' Rights
• Trumka - Labor Lawyer, Labor Leader

• Workers' Rights After 9-11: Who's Paying for Patriotism?
• Bush Besieges Colombian Trade Unionists
• Holes in The Stone-Washed Safety Net- The Continuing Aftermath of NAFTA
• University Unionism and the Decline of Academic Freedom: NYU Charged with Illegal Denial of Tenure Against Pro-Union Professor
• U.S./Cuban Labor Solidarity: What's in it for us? What's the Guild's role?
• Health Care Unions Organize Inter-American Conference on Privatization and Globalization
• Harvard's Trade Union Program: Labor Coalition Building
• Contingent Workers Share Solutions

• Hamlet NC Tragedy - Struggle for Safety Continues
• U.S. Union Activists Build Ties With Cuban Labor
• Senator Edward Kennedy and Rep. Howard Berman Introduce Bills on Immigration/Legalization for Farmworkers
• Holding U.S. corporations Accountable in the Global Economy
• Lawsuit Forces Labor Secretary Chao to Issues 2001 Wage Rates for Ag Guestworkers
• Whistleblower Victory: Schell v. City of Los Angeles
• Bay Area NLG L&EC to Support Asian Immigrant Women Advocates 

• Organizing Immigrant Workers
• Progressive Attorneys Join Together to Work for Fair Judiciary
• Affirming the Status Quo: The Supreme Court's Latest Reckoning with Pre-Dispute Binding Arbitration of Individual Statutory Rights
• NLG L&EC Organizes Second Delegation to Cuba
• Whistleblower Book a Great Buy

• Think there's no difference between Gore & Bush? Think again! 2009 election will affect us for generations
• Mandatory Arbitration of Statutory Rights
• NLG L&EC Organizes Second Delegation to Cuba
• Whistleblower Book a Great Buy

• NLG L&EC Sponsors Visit to Cuba
• New San Diego Clinic To Serve Workers' Employment Law Needs
• Organizing Workers - Indonesia Realities
• UFW Strawberry Victory as ALJ Splits Statewide Unit
• ADL-CIO Calls for a New Immigration Policy
• Guild Sugar Law Center Provides Valuable Assistance

• Considering Electoral Work - Maximizing Our Advocacy
• Building the Southern Labor Movement, One Worker at a Time 
• Fighting for Fair Trade in Seattle
• Working People's Electoral Politics at Work
• Fighting for Rights of Contingent Workers

• By What Authority? Curbing Corporate Abuse 
• Tosco Explosion: Who's to Blame?
• La Lucha Continua - East Coast Farm Workers & Mushroom Workers Successful in Organizing
• Undocumented Workers are Employed under NLRA
• Farmworkers Face Serious Threats of New Bracero Program
• Cuba 1999 - Compelling Contradictions
• Whistleblower Protection Available in Environmental
• Students Nationwide Rise in Protest Against Sweatshops