Hugh Cameron at Newsweek reports a Union representing West Coast Dock Workers has decried President Donald Trump's tariffs as a "direct attack on the Working Class" and said the duties have already begun to damage critical sectors of the U.S. economy. There is growing dissent among the Trade Sectors likely to feel the impacts of Trump’s drastic more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports Organized Labor and its allies turned out the troops en masse in 600 marches nationwide in what was the largest U.S. celebration of May Day, the International Workers’ Holiday, in years. The message was the need to resist and turn back the Trump Administration’s attacks on Workers, Immigrants and more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The first 100 days of Trump’s second term have been chaotic. President Donald Trump, along with Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), have engaged in a near-daily onslaught of actions to dismantle the Federal Government and eliminate services and benefits that Working Families rely upon. Some of more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Trump Administration attacked the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on April 1st, cutting more than 90% of the agency’s workforce, including me. NIOSH is the backbone of Worker safety. It’s the small agency you’ve never heard of that has probably saved your life. The agency conducts more»

Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports Congressional Democrats have warned that cuts to the U.S.’s top Labor Watchdog - the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), threaten to render the organization “basically ineffectual” and will be “catastrophic” for Workers’ Rights. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency more»

Filip Timotija at The Hill reports a Federal Judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s Administration from nixing bargaining rights for thousands of Federal Workers through an Executive Order Trump signed last month. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman ruled Trump’s order is unlawful, handing a short-term win to the National Treasury more»

Filip Timotija at The Hill reports The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest Union representing the Federal Workforce, is slashing more than half its Staff around the country, pinning the blame on President Donald Trump and his executive actions. AFGE is expected to lay off more than 200 Employees, going from 355 Workers down to more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Workers are dying and being injured on the job and the Trump Administration and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are putting them at greater risk by enacting policies that will create deplorable working conditions, according to a new report released by the National AFL-CIO. Ahead of Workers Memorial Day, the National AFL-CIO more»

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 517M President Greg Merricle, an Environmental Quality Specialist for the State of Michigan, has penned an interesting Labor Perspective in The Detroit News, which reads in part: Union Workers across the United States are feeling the impact of the Trump Administration's Anti-Worker, Anti-Union agenda. Campaign more»

Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports: To paraphrase Daniel Webster’s description of Dartmouth College, the Labor Department’s Women’s Bureau “is a small agency, sir, and yet there are those who love it.” The Women’s Bureau has existed for more than a century and it promotes Working Women and their equality on more»

Union Press Associates reports in People’s World that a coalition of corporate chieftains and lobbies, including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers, wants to roll back Labor Law by putting unilateral power to revoke everything, including the existence of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in the hands of more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Labor Movement and its allies have announced the formation of Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network, a new project to connect Federal Workers whose rights have been violated by the Trump Administration with free legal support. The Legal Defense Network will mobilize and train thousands of lawyers to provide pro bono legal more»

David DiMolfetta at Nextgov/FCW reports a user with a Russian IP address tried to log into National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Systems just minutes after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) moved to access and extract troves of sensitive data from inside the Agency, according to an extensive whistleblower disclosure. The more»

Brandon Chew at People’s World reports United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain says while his Union supports some use of the tariffs in the auto and other industries - he opposes most of the Trump agenda for its harmfulness to Workers. He said the pain caused by Anti-Worker policies over the years was at least, in part, channeled into support more»

Leah Feiger & Steven Levy at WIRED report Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), spent much of his first all-Staff meeting on last week promoting the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the agency and praising Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again Initiative, sources tell more»

Erich Wagner at Government Executive reports the Trump Administration has apparently ceased collecting Federal Workers’ Union Dues via voluntary payroll deduction at agencies targeted by a recent Executive Order seeking to strip Employees of their Collective Bargaining Rights without notice, leaving Labor Unions in financial upheaval. Last month, more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Public Service Workers are under assault and need their Elected Representatives in Washington, D.C. to step up and protect them. That’s why the National AFL-CIO, the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the Service Employees International Union more»

Dan La Botz at New Politics has penned an interesting and provocative Labor Perspective, one that is informative and may be hard for some Unions, their Leaders and their Members to read. In part, Botz writes: President Donald Trump has launched a vicious, multi-faceted attack on American Workers of all sorts and Workers are beginning to respond, but both more»

National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s announcement of new tariffs: The strategic use of tariffs can be an effective tool to support our industries and protect jobs at home, but they must be accompanied by policies that invest in our manufacturing base and a strong commitment to promoting more»

Joe Davidson at The Washington Post reports now we may know why President Donald Trump has not reissued his three first-term, Anti-Union directives that sharply reduced the ability of Labor Leaders to represent Employees. Rather than hamstring Federal Labor Organizations, Trump wants to bust the Unions. In another move among many to vastly expand the power more»

C.J. Atkins at People’s World reports what we’re witnessing in real-time is a struggle within the ruling class over what the future of U.S. capitalism - in fact, world capitalism - should look like. Representing those sectors of capital feeling the heat of competition on the world market (especially from China’s rapidly advancing firms), more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - On March 31st (2025), the Trump Administration conceded in a court filing that it had mistakenly deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia - a legally protected Maryland resident, father and Member of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) Union, to El Salvador “‘because of an more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Hundreds of rallies, marches and protests from Alaska to Hawaii to Northern Maine to Southeast Florida to Buffalo, New York - plus four overseas - will bring hundreds of thousands of people into the streets on Saturday, April 5th to, as organizers put it: “Stop the MAGA Assault on our country and our Constitution.” In more»

The Guardian’s Labor Reporter Steven Greenhouse has penned an interesting Labor Perspective that just appeared in that publication. In part, it reads: In an era when many Workers are demanding respect, (President Donald) Trump keeps showing disrespect toward the country’s 2.3 million Federal Workers. He and (Billionaire Elon) Musk have more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (Democrat-Minnesota) and Susan Collins (Republican-Maine) have introduced bipartisan legislation to expand access to Apprenticeships - the American Apprenticeship Act would provide States with tuition assistance funding to support Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship Programs. Companion legislation in the more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler is responding to the Trump Administration’s decimation of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), including closing field offices and drastically cutting the Agency’s Mediators and other Staff. The Federal News Network reports the Trump Administration is cutting more»

Public Services International reports as it becomes increasingly clear what a second Trump Presidency means, America's Labor Movement has positioned itself as Democracy's strongest, most important and best organized line of defense against a sweeping authoritarian agenda. The Unions forming our workforce's backbone - from Teachers to Nurses, Service Workers more»

Thousands of Workers across the country hit the streets over the weekend to say Hell No! to dismantling the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) organized rallies in cities across the U.S. in response to threats from the Trump Administration to privatize the USPS. NALC President Brian Renfroe declared the moves by more»

(NEW YORK CITY) - Journalists, Federal Workers and their Unions have sued the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), its Acting Director Victor Morales, and Special Adviser Kari Lake to challenge the unlawful shuttering of the agency and silencing of global media. The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, asserts the Agency failed to fulfill more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced its plans to permanently allow U.S. Poultry and Pork Processing Plants to operate more quickly, which Labor Unions say will increase the risk of serious harm to Workers. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union-United Food & Commercial Workers (RWDSU-UFCW) President Stuart more»

When it comes to job safety and health rules and enforcement, Republican Oligarch President Donald Trump may be very bad news, in terms of both rules and leaders, for Workers. But maybe Workers shouldn’t be surprised. In Trump’s first White House term, the unspoken directive to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was more»

The Washington Post reported recently President Trump planned to fire the Governing Board of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and merge the agency with the Commerce Department, prompting the Board to seek legal counsel. A White House spokesperson later denied an Executive Order was in the works (though it would take an act of Congress to strip away the more»

Sherrod Brown, who served as a United States Senator from the State of Ohio from 2007 to 2025, has penned a Labor Perspective that recently appeared in The New Republic. It read, in part: There are two questions people have asked me since November: What are you going to do next? And, where do we go from here, as a party? The answers to both are the same. more»

Brandon Chew and Mark Gruenberg at People’s World report an estimated 65,000 people tuned in to an evening webinar held late last week where multiple Unions and their allies raised awareness on how Working Class People can help protect Public Services and Civil Servants in their communities fight back against the chainsaw cutting of jobs and programs more»

The National AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are both responding to the Trump Administration’s major reduction of the U.S. Department Of Education’s Workforce: National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement: “The Department of Education provides critical support to Educators and School Staff, more»

Daniel Wiessner at Reuters reports the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which enforces the Labor Rights of Private Sector Workers, is abandoning its defense of a law barring the President from removing appointees at will, as President Donald Trump seeks to oust a Democratic member. The NLRB is notifying Courts in at least six cases, including one more»

Sasha Rogelberg at Fortune Magazine reports a major Government Employment Watchdog overseeing the fairness of agency firings has been flooded with claims following President Donald Trump’s purge of Federal Workers. The Merit System Protections Board (MSPB), an independent agency working to ensure government jobs are awarded on merit, has received as more»

The U.S. Department of Labor has reinstated about 120 Employees who were facing termination as part of the Trump Administration’s mass firings of recently hired Workers, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) said. The AFGE, the largest Federal Employee Union, said the Probationary Employees had been reinstated – immediately, and more»

Jake Johnson at Common Dreams reports President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Labor made clear during her Senate confirmation hearing last week that she no longer supports legislation known as the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO), which would bolster Worker organizing and dramatically weaken Anti-Union Right-to-Work (for less) more»

Devan Cole, CNN reports a Federal Judge has ruled President Donald Trump’s firing of the former Chairwoman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was an “illegal act,” overturning her ousting in a decision that was highly critical of Trump’s “intent on pushing the bounds of his office.” The ruling from U.S. District more»

Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams reports U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont) and U.S. Congressman Bobby Scott (Democrat-Virginia) have reintroduced the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Union Leaders say they are prepared to fight for the legislation that would strengthen Workers' Rights. While Sanders and Scott more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler has issued a video response to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress in which she spoke about the country’s Working Class, “united,” she says, “in how fed up they are with the system we live in.” “A system where CEOs at our largest companies more»

Erich Wagner at Government Executive reports a coalition of more than a dozen Federal Employee Unions are urging Senate lawmakers to reassert Congress’ Constitutional power of the purse and block the Trump Administration’s unilateral workforce and programmatic cuts when they seek to keep the government open in the coming days. Congress must more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Suppose you’re sick, but you’re also deaf, so you can’t talk with your doctor, without help? That’s where a Translator steps in, using video relay services, a specialized form of communication which lets you talk to your doctor, and your doctor talk with you. How about if you need access to your bank account, more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement on the budget resolution under consideration in the House of Representatives this week: While Elon Musk is busy trying to fire the Federal Workforce and gut the government services we all rely on, Congress is gearing up to pass a massive tax giveaway to giant more»

Hundreds of thousands of Workers across the U.S. went on strike in 2024 - from Health Care Workers in California to Public School Teachers in Massachusetts to telecommunications workers in the South. The most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows 271,500 Workers were involved in “major work stoppages” in 2024. The number more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Republican attacks on Workers, particularly Union Workers, continued as Republican President Donald Trump’s nominee for Labor Secretary - former U.S. Representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer, disavowed her prior support of the Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, while members of Congress’ ruling Republicans are again pushing more»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) held a Save The USPS (United States Postal Service) rally on Capitol grounds Monday (February 25th) to send a clear message to the White House: Hell no to dismantling the Postal Service! Hundreds of NALC Members from across the United States, as well as Labor Leaders and Union more»

The International Association of Machinists (IAM) has become the first Union to be recognized as a National Veterans Service Organization (VSO) for its work advocating for Veteran Members across the country through IAM’s Veterans Services Program. This designation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) means IAM will get access to more vital more»

Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports Ken Martin - the newly-elected Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has warned his Party that the Republicans are now seen as the Party of the Working Class and vowed to win back the trust of American Workers as the Democrats seek to rebuild after their losses in the 2024 Presidential Election. In his more»