Mark Gruenberg

3 weeks ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

BOSTON—Is Sean O’Brien, elected as an insurgent as Teamsters president almost four years ago, the favorite union leader of Republican President Donald Trump these days? The question becomes increasingly relevant as more and more of Labor takes a leading role in the fight against the MAGA movement. The extent to which O’Brien’s union is behind him on his closeness with Trump is, of course, open to question.

3 weeks ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—The Donald Trump-GOP “big beautiful” money bill, which an academic study now reveals would kill 51,000 people unnecessarily each year by 2034, faces rising opposition inside and outside Capitol Hill. Only one part of the national uprising against the bill that is pressuring lawmakers are the planned coast-to-coast demonstrations against it on June 14.

3 weeks ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—Republican President Donald Trump’s firing of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox presages something far worse, two top AFL-CIO officials say: A total—and unconstitutional—takeover of the entire federal government down to the lowest level. And that’s very bad for workers, Jody Calemine, the federation’s Legislative and Advocacy Director, and Matt Ginsburg, its General Counsel, add.

3 weeks ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—In a blow to the green movement—and to workers affected by downstream air and water pollution from big-ticket projects—the Supreme Court limited the reach of environmental impact statements only to the project involved, and not to its upstream or downstream impacts. The 8-0 decision came in the case involving a planned 88-mile-long railroad from Utah’s Uinta oil field to major freight rail lines.

3 weeks ago | peoplesworld.org | Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON—A mass protest by D.C. residents jammed the City Council’s chambers on June 2 over Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to end the “sanctuary city” status of the Nation’s Capital. Bowser’s plan is in her proposed city budget for the next fiscal year. It “shamefully includes a repeal of the Sanctuary Cities Act,” which protects migrants to D.C., a fact sheet says. The law bans local police from cooperating with President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.