Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Tag: labor unions

ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks...

Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.

‘This is a union town’: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders join...

Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1.

As Americans live paycheck to paycheck, Tesla shareholders approve Musk’s $1...

As the nation endures record inequality and a prolonged government shutdown, Tesla shareholders have granted CEO Elon Musk a pay deal that could make him the world’s first trillionaire, prompting fierce backlash from lawmakers, labor unions, and progressive groups.

We closed JFK8 after a sewage pipe burst, one of many...

Collective action is needed to improve working conditions at America’s second-largest private employer.

How the rich and their right-wing cronies plot to break working...

They’re plotting to hijack democracy and put working people under the feet of CEOs, the ultra-wealthy, and other Republican fanatics.

How gerrymandering undercuts workers’ freedom

To me, this is the end of America, if we want to live in a democracy.”

How union membership leads to a great life

Unions anchor millions of Americans in the middle class, enabling these workers to leverage a stronger work-life balance than peers at nonunion workplaces.

CEOs are getting richer. Everyone else is falling behind.

At the 100 largest low-wage corporations, the average CEO now makes 632 times more than a typical worker.

How grassroots union activists fight Trump, Republican callousness

One man is battling the callousness of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who have the power to help but prefer to inflict additional hardships on the people they ostensibly represent.

How Trump betrayed workers by gutting the Inflation Reduction Act

Community leaders united behind the initiative. And then Donald Trump stabbed them all in the back.

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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis

Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.

California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide

The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.

No king but madness reigns

Today I'll survey several factors feeding this unfolding fiasco.

Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns

Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.

Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war

When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.