Dave Jamieson

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

When the Trump administration fired 2,000 probationary employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year, frontline health care workers were spared from the president’s cuts. But Ann Marie Patterson-Powell said she and other VA nurses still felt the effects of the layoffs. Medical supplies became harder to track down in her oncology unit at the VA hospital in Durham, North Carolina, Patterson-Powell said.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

Senate Republicans are pursuing a plan through their “big, beautiful bill” that would force new federal employees to pay for traditional job protections, a major reform that unions have decried as “extortion.”The measure put forth late last week by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee mirrors a similar one House Republicans included in their version of the reconciliation bill that passed last month.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson |Arthur Delaney

Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri proposed a bill Tuesday that would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, his latest move to frame himself as a new kind of pro-worker Republican. Hawley’s legislation is not in any danger of actually becoming law — his fellow Republicans hold a majority in the Senate and have been blocking minimum wage increases for years.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

The arrest of a California union leader in the Los Angeles immigration protests has sparked anger across the labor movement, with unions denouncing the Trump administration and calling for the immediate release of David Huerta. Huerta, the president of a Service Employees International Union affiliate, was injured Friday in what his union said was a workplace raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

3 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Dave Jamieson

The Trump administration’s destruction of a consumer watchdog agency will end up hurting veterans and active members of the armed forces who are vulnerable to predatory banking and credit practices, according to a new report from public-interest groups. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been investigating a growing number of complaints from veterans who say they were fleeced by banks and credit card companies in recent years.