“This is a government that is by, and for, the CEOs and billionaires,” said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler Although US President Donald Trump’s administration likes to boast that he puts “American workers first,” several news reports published on Monday document the president’s attacks on the rights of working people and labor unions. As longtime labor […]
“Every fiber of our union is being poured into fighting the billionaire class and an economy that enriches people like Donald Trump at the expense of workers,” said UAW president Shawn Fain. Posturing as a friend and ally of the working class, former President Donald Trump is planning to travel to Detroit next week amid […]
Amazon, which has reported $10.3 billion in recent federal contracts, paid CEO Andy Jassy 6,474 times more than it paid its median worker last year. As ordinary workers across the United States watched inflation eat away at modest wage gains in 2021, many corporations—including firms contracting with the federal government—used record-shattering profits to lavish their CEOs […]
“This administration will not stop until it takes away all workers’ rights to form and join a union.” President Donald Trump on Thursday quietly issued a memo granting Defense Secretary Mark Esper the power to abolish collective bargaining rights for the Defense Department’s 750,000 civilian workers, a move unions decried as part of the administration’s far-reaching […]