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One thing is clear from a reporter’s conversations with laid-off federal workers this year: The cuts have been anything but straightforward and efficient.

By many estimates, the increasing use of artificial intelligence is set to produce significant job losses. The prospect of serious disruption demands that we start formulating egalitarian policy solutions right now.

Employers will have far less incentive to comply with an anti-wage theft law under a new Department of Labor rule.

It’s long past time to fix this failure in our economy and in our politics.

From technology industry programmers to coal miners, workers must mobilize through their unions to establish a unified labor movement that collectively demands a voice in shaping the future of our workplaces, economies and future.

What Medicare Advantage is, the white paper goes on to say is “another Wall Street privatization scheme of raiding public funds for private profit much like the attacks on public schools, water systems, and even parking meters."

The Trump administration plans to dismantle the department by firing thousands of workers.

ICE raids have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews.

Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provi

Now independent union leader Dan Osborn, who nearly won a U.S. Senate race in 2024, is vying for his seat.