Federal prosecutors working a University of Michigan protest case sent grand jury subpoenas to the American Federation of Teachers and its graduate-worker local, demanding membership rolls, officers' payroll and meeting minutes going back to January 2023. Neither union has been charged with anything.
Florida's governor-elect named Tarren Bragdon, founder of the Foundation for Government Accountability, as policy chair of his transition team. Public records show Bragdon's group handed a Florida lawmaker the draft of a 2024 bill loosening limits on how long teenagers can work. Bragdon and his wife gave Donalds' PAC $57,000.
A new Labor Department proposal would end required quarterly silica dust testing, let mines skip testing some miners entirely, drop fines based on companies' own dust samples, and make starting health exams voluntary for many new miners.
The New York Times reports Trump's EEOC plans to narrow the rule behind the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act as soon as this month, possibly cutting the list of covered conditions and widening religious exemptions. In 2021, 101 House Republicans voted against the bill, and 59 of them are on this site.
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Roger Marshall was told by a Kansas manufacturer that Trump's tariffs slashed his margins, spiked shipping costs and forced him to cancel his company's expansion plans.
A federal lawsuit filed Friday says canvassers recruited from five states to knock doors for Mike Lawler were promised big weekly pay, housing and travel, then paid as little as $1 a door, worked 70 to 84 hours a week, and were fired when they complained. Lawler's campaign answered by cutting off Bloomberg.
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Robert Aderholt wrote a spending bill that completely eliminates adult and youth job training programs.
Florida Sen. Ashley Moody is the sponsor of a bill that would give makers of quartz countertops the kind of lawsuit shield gun makers get — while stone workers, including one in Tampa, are dying of a lung disease from cutting it. The CEO of America's largest quartz maker and his son gave her victory fund $24,000, and $14,000 of it went on to her campaign.
The government's monthly jobs reports for 2025 added up to 1.21 million new jobs. After it rechecked them, the real number was 116,000. Trump had bragged about the early ones.