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State And Local Workers’ Rights Innovations: New Players, New Laws, New Methods Of Enforcement, Terri Gerstein

Saint Louis University Law Journal

This article describes and analyzes the considerable surge in state and local government activity protecting workers in recent years. It situates this growth in state and local action as a response to degradation of working conditions resulting from longstanding economic, political, and legal trends, and the resulting worker organizing to counter those trends. It also positions this burgeoning activity as a reaction to challenges at the federal level, including rollbacks and worker-hostile policies by the Trump administration, as well as gridlock in Congress.

The article frames the uptick in state and local worker protection activity within three specific categories: new …