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Judge tosses Trump-era pork processing speed-up, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Agriculture, President Trump / By max cyril

Line speeds in meat processing plants are a classic example of something that’s simultaneously a worker safety issue and a consumer safety issue. And this week, both workers and consumers got a major victory when a federal judge threw out a Trump-era rule allowing pork processing plants to operate at higher speeds. According to U.S. District Judge …

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The Two Things Unions Traded Away That Handed Workers to Trump

Leave a Comment / President Trump, unions / By max cyril

This is a response to the cover story of In These Times’ January issue, ?“Are Trump Voters a Lost Cause?” Thank you for printing ?“Are Trump Voters a Lost Cause?” and thanks to Mindy Isser for writing it. I offer a different perspective. It is intended to continue a discussion, not to end one. Youngstown, Ohio used to be one of the major steelmaking communities in …

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Trump’s Anti-Worker Labor Board

Leave a Comment / NLRB, President Trump, Trump, unions / By max cyril

In his State of the Union address this year, President Trump declared that “our agenda is relentlessly pro-worker.” Despite this populist posturing, any sober assessment of Trump’s first term will show that it has been an all-out assault on labor. Trump has ruthlessly attacked federal workers, granted more tax cuts for the rich, and severely weakened …

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What’s at Stake for the Labor Movement on Election Day? Everything.

Leave a Comment / election, Labor Movement, President Trump / By max cyril

America is in crisis. There can be no doubt about that. All of our immediate crises—the pandemic and the unemployment and the economic collapse and the death spiral of various public institutions—have lent the upcoming presidential election an air of emergency. For working people in America, though, the emergency is nothing new at all. What …

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‘Can’t possibly be serious’: Trump’s bid to shore up jobless aid falls short

Leave a Comment / President Trump, unemployment / By max cyril

The president’s order depends on already cash-poor states being able to create and implement a new system and fund one-fourth of the aid. Tens of millions of jobless Americans are unlikely to see their weekly unemployment checks grow anytime soon — despite President Donald Trump’s executive action promising an extra $400 a week. The president’s …

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Trump is playing shock doctrine with COVID-19, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / President Trump, Worker Protection / By max cyril

One of the week’s big must-reads was How Trump is helping tycoons exploit the pandemic, by The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer. Specifically, Ronald Cameron, the owner of the massive poultry processing company Mountaire. Cameron is a major Trump donor, and he’s on a White House advisory board about the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile, there’s a …

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How the Trump Administration’s Small Business Protection Program Has Failed Communities of Color

Leave a Comment / President Trump, SmallBusiness / By max cyril

The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated businesses run by people of color. The Trump administration’s Small Business Administration isn’t helping. In recent weeks, it’s become increasingly clear that the federal government has failed to protect minority-owned businesses from the pandemic’s economic fallout. According to data published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the number of black-owned businesses …

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Trump Is Using the Pandemic to Wage War on Immigrants and Separate Families

Leave a Comment / Immigration Reform, President Trump / By max cyril

When President Donald Trump first began talking about ending “chain migration” in 2017, media outlets pointed out that his own parents-in-law had likely obtained lawful permanent residency through their daughter Melania—a naturalized U.S. citizen. At the same time that Trump was ranting on Twitter, “CHAIN MIGRATION must end now! Some people come in, and they bring their whole …

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Trump expected to extend limits on foreign workers

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The executive order, blocking most people from getting permanent residency, will stretch restrictions through the end of the year. President Donald Trump is expected to extend through the end of the year foreign-worker restrictions that were initially enacted in April because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people familiar with the discussions. Trump will expand on …

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This week in the war on workers: Trump’s top attacks on workers … so far

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The Economic Policy Institute’s Perkins Project “tracks actions by the administration, Congress, and the courts that affect people’s wages and their rights at work,” and as we get to the end of Donald Trump’s first 100 days, they’ve provided a list of the top 10 things he and congressional Republicans have done to working …

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