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Event celebrates 100-year landmark case laying groundwork for workplace protections

June 24, 2008
NCL will mark the 100^th Anniversary of Muller vs. Oregon, the first Supreme Court decision to uphold limits on the hours women workers could be forced to toil in factories and laundries with a historic gathering of feminist scholars of the Progressive Era, labor activists, and leading gender discrimination lawyers at Georgetown Law Center. Experts gathered will also discuss the priority issues for labor and working families as Americans look toward new leadership in the White House.

Save the planet! (And some money)

July 1, 2008
NCL's 2008 Consumer Calendar: July tips help Consumers be good, smart global citizens.

NCL to teens: avoid these five worst summer jobs

July 10, 2008
One teen American is injured on the job every two minutes, and one dies from a workplace injury every five days. NCL is warning parents and teens to be smart this summer and protect themselves from workplace hazards.

NCL's Greenberg addresses NACPI at annual meeting

July 14, 2008
NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg delivered a keynote address on the rampant problem of consumer fraud to North American Consumer Protection Investigators in New Orleans.

Groups call for clear, concise single document from pharmacy

July 29, 2008
NCL has joined with several national healthcare organizations to ask the FDA to issue a guidance for a combined and simplified document for patients when they receive their prescription drugs. In a petition filed on June 30, NCL argued for the importance of patients receiving clear, useful information in plain language with their prescription drugs.

Stop for Brake Safety Month

August 1, 2008
NCL's 2008 Consumer Calendar: August tips remind consumers of the importance of a safely-operating vehicle.

NCL applauds passage of historic product safety bill

August 4, 2008
The bill, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, which now awaits the President’s signature, is an historic boon to kids’ safety, providing badly needed improvements that will help enormously in keeping kids safe.

LifeSmarts to kick off 15th competition year

September 4, 2008
National Consumers League’s teen consumer initiative is launching for 2008-2009 with new coaching and teaching resources and supporters for biggest year yet.

‘Wild west’ prepaid calling cards industry unregulated and preying on poor, immigrant, military consumers

September 16, 2008
NCL Executive Director Sally Greenberg called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a pro-consumer bill to increase protections.

NCL to House Committee: Are we adequately protecting our child workers? No!

September 23, 2008
NCL’s Sally Greenberg testified at a hearing of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor, arguing that much more can and must be done to better protect our young people from the hazards and dangers they confront in the workplace.