Trump’s plans for the workers and organized Labor come into sharper focus, but the real news this week comes from the strike line and the bargaining table. Plus… Britain’s Number 10 Downing Street is going to get a bit more DIRTY.
Articles mentioned in this show:
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Dismissed labor official sues Trump and NLRB chair over firing
- Acting General Counsel Rescinds Long List of Biden-Era Guidance
- More Perfect Union on Twitter: Rand Paul: “You no longer support the aspect of the PRO Act that would have overturned state right to work laws?”
Trump Labor Secretary Nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer: “Yes, sir.”
- Trump Labor Nominee Walks Back Support For Pro-Union Law
- As Michigan’s repeal takes effect, New Hampshire should continue to reject ‘right-to-work’ legislation
- Study links declining union strength to more workplace deaths
- Federal Workers to Hold Public Actions in Multiple US Cities on Wednesday
- Hundreds rally against firing of federal workers, emphasizing threats to public health
- Penn faculty join hundreds to rally against Trump administration’s federal research funding freeze
- UIC educators, researchers and students protest NIH funding cuts proposed by Trump administration
- Rally held at UW to protest Trump’s funding cuts: ‘We’re seeing graduate programs actually freezing’
- DOGE sued by taxpayer groups and unions over access to IRS files
- Public Service Unions and State Democracy Defenders Fund Challenge Unlawful, Mass Federal Firings
- Amazon workers vote against unionizing a North Carolina warehouse
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Amazon Stokes Racial Divides in Lead-Up to North Carolina Union Vote
- How Trump’s Firings “Paralyze” the NLRB
- Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake workers go on strike
- Alamo Drafthouse Staff at New York Theaters Join Colorado Location in Going on Strike
- @Riot_Rebel on Instagram: On the picket line with @nycalamounited letting SONY know that we refuse to accept 70 illegal and immoral layoffs at Brooklyn and Manhattan Alamo Drafthouse
- King Soopers strike will end at midnight Monday; negotiations to restart
- Nurses reject offer, extend strike at Providence hospitals
- Providence, Oregon Nurses Association to return to bargaining table as nurses strike enters sixth week
- No 10 cleaning and catering staff to begin month-long strike over pay
- University caves to union’s demand, RAs to go without roommates next year
- Stop & Shop workers threaten to strike across New England
- Defending public education: A national call to action
Labor History
- Harlan County Miners Strikes
- February 19 – Do You Know Your Weingarten Rights?
- @lizshuler.bsky.social: 100 years ago, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters made history as the first Black union to join the American Federation of Labor. Their fight for dignity and justice laid the foundation for today’s labor movement.
Photo Credit: Kevin J. Beaty / Denverite
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