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100th anniversary of landmark Supreme Court labor case
In 1908, NCL’s Florence Kelley and Josephine Goldmark mobilized and aided then-lawyer Louis Brandeis, arguing before the Supreme Court in defense of a state’s right to restrict a woman’s working hours. The case spawned the iconic “Brandeis Brief,” the first of the influential legal arguments based in societal evidence. Brandeis was triumphant; after Muller, states were permitted to regulate work hours, and future Brandeis Briefs would continue to change the course of American legal and social history.
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Labor Day reflections: Lessons of Postville
During the summer of 2008, state labor officials in Iowa released the results of an investigation of the kosher meatpacking giant, Agriprocessors, in the small town of Postville, where authorities determined that the slaughterhouse illegally employed 57 minors, aged 14 to 17, in sweatshop-working conditions rife with health and safety violations.
NCL Testimony to House on Child Labor Enforcement
Every 10 days in America, a young person is killed at work. Every day, more than 100 young workers under the age of 19 are seriously injured or become ill from their jobs. In September 2008, NCL Executive Director Sally Greenberg testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the Department of Labor’s poor enforcement of the federal child labor laws, making recommendations about reforms to strengthen protections for working children.
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