President Donald Trump on April 13, 2026 nominated longtime labor lawyer James Macy to a seat on the National Labor Relations Board, a move that would tilt the already-contentious agency further to the right if the Senate signs off.

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 24: U.S. President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell tour the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation project on July 24, 2025 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration has been critical of the ...

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is leaving US President Donald Trump's cabinet, after multiple allegations of abusing her position's power, including having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job.

Unions sue the NLRB over a plan to centralize legal power in DC, raising major concerns about fairness, authority, and the future of labor law.

It has long become clear that those of us who saw a glimmer of hope in President Trump's appointment of Lori Chavez-DeRemer as secretary of Labor got snowed. It wasn't just, or even chiefly, the miasma of sleaze and corruption that seemed to surround her wherever she went.

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