President Biden signed an Executive Order today creating a White House Task Force on Worker Organizing & Empowerment to mobilize the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to empower workers to organize.
"With sufficient political will and swift action, your administration can finish the job."
Research projects stalled under the Trump administration may now be able to move forward, but the impacts of the more restrictive policy could reverberate if the policy shrank the pipeline of scientists entering the field.
The disaster was dropping 7,400 bombs on the country annually
Unions need labor law reform through the PRO Act. But even if that bill remains off the table in the near future, Joe Biden can use executive orders immediately to roll back corporate union-busting like Amazon carried out in Bessemer, Alabama.
The annual decline in the number of union members actually slowed after the a right-to-work law in Michigan took effect in 2013. And membership grew to 604,000 in 2020 from 589,000 in 2019.
The president’s new commission has a lot of fans — in the Federalist Society.
"To restore our democracy, we must expand the Supreme Court," says Rep. Mondaire Jones.
Congress’s failure to raise the federal minimum wage last month dealt a blow, but advocates are pressuring lawmakers to bring the issue back.
The Right Way to Compare Vaccines Is Not What You Think. Miiry | Salif Diarra. Georgia Lawmaker Arrested. Joe Biden’s Scandals | Desi Lydic Foxsplains. Feds Consider Sedition Charges.
Spread the word