January 27th 2022
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Senator Joe Manchin III (D-WV) appeared on “Fox News Sunday” this morning to say that he will not support President Biden’s signature Build Back Better Act, likely sending a death knell to the $2.2 trillion social safety net, climate and tax bill at the center of...
On Saturday, hospital workers and management at Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit healthcare networks, reached a tentative agreement, potentially averting a massive strike, set to begin tomorrow, that would have involved more than 30,000...
The ongoing saga of congressional Democrats’ attempts to squeeze their ‘big, bold’ budget blueprint through the legislative process continues to unfold, though Reuters reports that President Biden and Democratic congressional leaders are finally nearing consensus...
This weekend, as first reported by Deadline, all eyes are on Hollywood. After an unprecedented strike authorization vote earlier this month, in which roughly 92% of eligible members voted and 99% of those who voted authorized a strike, IATSE announced that it...
As the corporate-funded effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom heads into its final stretch (the election date, September 14, is now less than one week away), CNN reports that Newsom has increasingly relied on labor unions and union workers to propel his...
Hurricane Ida, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall in Louisiana today, on the sixteenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm’s trajectory includes New Orleans in its path and will present a test of the 350 miles of infrastructural...
In the aftermath of the unexpected death of Richard Trumka on Thursday, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., as noted by the New York Times earlier today, faces a moment of decision – a “crossroads,” in the words of the Times. Despite Trumka’s impassioned and experienced leadership,...
The 2020 Summer Olympics officially kicked off in Tokyo on Friday amidst rising fears stemming from a surge in coronavirus infections in Tokyo and worldwide. More than a hundred cases have already been linked to the Games – including three athletes, one of whom is...
The Senate voted on Tuesday to approve Julie Su as the United States Deputy Labor Secretary, the second highest ranking position in the Department of Labor. Su, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was previously serving as the Labor Secretary for the state of...
A Reuters report released over the weekend, which analyzed two decades of retail wages in the United States, found that union workers get paid more on average than their nonunion counterparts – and that the gap between the compensation of union and nonunion workers...
As restaurants across the country reportedly struggle to fill many of the grueling positions in their sweltering kitchens, conservative lawmakers have descended on the erroneous consensus that the pandemic-era enhanced unemployment insurance payments are the reason...
On Saturday, nearly 3,000 Volvo workers went on strike in Dublin, Virginia, one of the largest of 2021 so far. The Volvo plant in Dublin is one of the largest Volvo facilities in the world, with more than 3,300 workers, 2,900 of whom belong to UAW. The strike is in...