I'm positive I'm right. . . . That doesn't mean I'm right. That quote captures Laury at his best. He fought for his clients as hard as...

WORKERS AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY VOTE TO UNIONIZE WITH UAW Graduate student workers and postdoctoral scholars at the...

Dear Friends and Colleagues of SSDS, We are writing to share the sad news of the passing of one of our founding and named partners,...

NLRB ORDERS ELECTION FOR WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS’ PRODUCTION COORDINATORS, PRODUCTION MANAGERS AND PRODUCTION SUPERVISORS, UNIT...

Jon Karmel added to SSDS’s Employee Benefits Team Jon Karmel joins SSDS to serve as Of Counsel to its federal Employee Benefits practice....

On March 10, 2023, workers employed at Bicycle Transit Systems voted 97% in favor of an industry-leading first contract that includes pay...

Justices in California’s First Court of Appeals delivered a partial blow to working families in a decision that upheld the...

By a 93% margin, graduate workers at the University of Southern California have voted 1,599 to 122 in favor of unionization. The victory...

In McLaren Macomb, 372 N.L.R.B. No. 58 (2023), the NLRB held that overly broad non-disclosure and non-disparagement provisions in...

On February 26, 2023, over 650 family members, friends, and fellow activists came together from all over the Country to Delancey Street...

Melanie Luthern Allen was appointed by the Santa Monica City Council to sit on the five-member Personnel Board. The Personnel Board is an...

On January 1, 2023, the minimum wage in California increased to $15.50 an hour for both large and small businesses. In addition, many...

Please join us in celebrating the life of Fred Ross Jr., a member of the SSDS family, and husband to Managing Partner Margo Feinberg. A...

On November 22, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance requiring retailers with 300 or more employees globally to give their...

Three hundred production workers in St. Joseph, Missouri joined UFCW District Union Local 2 after a card check authorization election...

On the heels of impressive gains for academic student and postdoctoral workers at the University of California, workers at two other...

A super-majority of animation production workers at Nickelodeon Animation Studios submitted authorization cards in support of The...

Forty days into the largest strike of the year, and the largest strike ever at any institute of higher education, 36,000 academic student...

Academic employees, including Teaching Assistants, Graduate Student Researchers, Postdocs, and Academic Researchers, across all ten...