The Guardian World · Aug 12, 2026

‘Unrig the economy for working people’: the California candidate who wrote updated labor laws

Marni von Wilpert helped draft Protecting the Right to Organize act, and now wants work toward implementing it Legislation that would modernize federal labor law began with a handful of lawyers meeting, of all places, in an ice-cream shop. Bringing together “our collective experience as labor lawyers over the years, really trying to unrig the rules so that working people could have a fair shot”.