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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—The top enforcement officer at the National Labor Relations Board, Acting General Counsel William Cowen, has cut back on remedies for workers harmed by company law-breaking. The latest anti-labor move by the administration follows a Supreme Court ruling upholding the president’s right to remove the pro-labor Gwynn Wilcox from the board. A lower court ruling said her firing was illegal and reinstated her until the Supreme Court reversed their decision.
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1 week ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—Congress is taking its time coming back to D.C., where action shifts to the Senate on GOP President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful budget bill” or “big bad budget bill” if you are looking at it with clear eyes. Unions and their allies are gearing up for the fight in the Upper Chamber, whose members reconvene on May 29. For unions, women, children and workers, it’s a bad—very bad—bill.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director, Russell Vought, has summed up the administration’s attitude towards federal workers: “We want to put them in trauma.”A new 42-page report by the AFL-CIO, which contains that Vought quote, could easily apply it to the whole country, federal worker or not, federal program or not, federal service or not.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—By just a single vote early Thursday morning, the MAGA-dominated House passed Trump’s “big beautiful bill” that slashes taxes for the wealthy and obliterates benefits for everyone else. Every Democrat, along with two Republican defectors and a single GOP abstainer, refused to give their support to the measure, leaving it to pass 215 to 214. It now heads to the Senate, and the White House is applying maximum pressure to force it through quickly.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—The nation’s largest unions, the National Education Association, the Service Employees, the Teachers/AFT and AFSCME, launched a $2 million media campaign, with ads and member mobilization, in 17 key congressional districts to support, defend and promote public service work—and to defeat Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax cut for corporations and the rich.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
CHICAGO—Shorted by millions of dollars the federal government promised them for services to resettle migrants seeking asylum, the cities of Chicago, Phoenix, Tucson, and Denver have marched into federal court in Chicago and sued President Donald Trump’s regime for the cash. Their case is critical because Trump had his Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, unconstitutionally stop funds Congress had already allotted.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—Using the transparent excuse that lower courts are still hearing cases, a three-judge U.S. Appeals Court panel decided 2-1 along party lines to reinstate President Donald Trump’s obliteration of union contracts covering a million federal workers. The two Republican-named judges hearing the case against a nationwide injunction upheld the White Trump administration’s argument and ruled against the Treasury Employees (NTEU) and their allies.
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2 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
DENVER and SALT LAKE CITY—In what would be a political flip-flop, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, as expected, vetoed a key piece of pro-union legislation in trending-blue Colorado. At the same time, a pro-worker referendum has been certified for the November 2026 ballot in next-door deep-red Utah. Confusing? Yes. But it shows that, if anything, both politicians—Polis—and voters—the Utahns—can defy political prognostication.
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3 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
ALBION, N.Y.—Donald Trump’s ICE raiders are at it again. Only this time, they’re raiding farms and factories in rural areas—and arresting union proponents along the way. The only unanswered question about such arrests, which target Hispanic-named people or anyone with brown skin, is whether the farm owners are deliberately calling ICE (the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency) to raid their facilities when union organizing starts.
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3 weeks ago | 
peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg
WASHINGTON—As demonstrators here demanded the Supreme Court uphold the U.S. Constitution against Donald Trump, progressive justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor hit Trump’s lawyer with the same demand inside the chamber—but in more polite language. In a May 15 session that lasted more than two hours, Justices Jackson and Sotomayor challenged Trump’s Solicitor General, D.
