Nick Niedzwiadek

Labor and Employment Reporter at POLITICO

Labor and Employment reporter @Politico & Morning Shift co-writer || previously @PoliticoNY always @dailytarheel || [email protected]

Articles

Trump fires three consumer watchdog commissioners as he dismantles agency

6 days ago | politico.com | Sophia Cai |Nick Niedzwiadek |Holly Otterbein

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is a small but powerful federal agency that for five decades has kept dangerous toys, cribs, and electronics out of American homes. President Donald Trump speaks at an event for Military Mothers, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
Trump fires three consumer watchdog commissioners as he dismantles agency

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Sophia Cai |Nick Niedzwiadek |Holly Otterbein

The Trump administration is breaking up the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a small but powerful independent watchdog that for five decades has quietly kept dangerous toys, cribs and electronics out of American homes. The administration on Thursday night fired three Biden-appointed commissioners on the five-member CPSC board — Alexander Hoehn-Saric, Mary T.
White House eyes big cuts to DOL funding

1 week ago | politico.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

DOL DOWNSIZE: The White House wants to lop off more than one-third of the Labor Department’s funding, according to a budget document submitted to Congress on Friday. The “skinny budget” proposal — so named because it lacks much of the granular specificity integral to actually allocating money for the federal government — would shrink DOL’s discretionary budget from its current $13.3 billion to $8.6 billion for next fiscal year, your host reported for Pro subscribers.
Labor Department sidelines staffers amid DOGE push for immigrant data

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

DOGE staffers have tried to access to information related to the National Farmworker Jobs Program. DOGE has increasingly tried to repurpose federal agencies' data and systems in ways that could bolster the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Federal workers unions grapple with fallout of Trump order

1 month ago | politico.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

SOLDIERING ON: Labor unions representing federal government workers are continuing to bear the ripple effects of President Donald Trump’s executive order last month stripping entire agencies of labor rights on national security grounds. “They think this is gonna kill federal labor unions; it’s not going to do that at all,” Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers told Shift.
An agency head gave her staff a day off - and they got antsy

1 month ago | politico.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

The head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week told agency employees they didn’t have to work April 18, inadvertently sparking a sense of unease that officials have since scrambled to soothe. On April 8, acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas sent an email saying that non-emergency employees were being excused from work that day, which falls on Good Friday, according to two current staffers and two former EEOC officials familiar with the matter.
An agency head gave her staff a day off - and they got antsy

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

The head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week told agency employees they didn’t have to work April 18, inadvertently sparking a sense of unease that officials have since scrambled to soothe. On April 8, acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas sent an email saying that non-emergency employees were being excused from work that day, which falls on Good Friday, according to two current staffers and two former EEOC officials familiar with the matter.
Trump taps ex-Rep. Anthony D'Esposito for Labor IG

1 month ago | politico.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

1 hour ago President Donald Trump tapped a former House member who lost a scandal-tinged reelection bid last year to serve as the Labor Department’s internal watchdog as part of a slate of nominations for top jobs at the agency announced late Monday. Former Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, who worked as a New York City Police Department detective before being elected to Congress, was selected to serve as Labor’s inspector general.
Labor groups reel from DOL's international cancellations

1 month ago | politico.com | Nick Niedzwiadek

PULLING THE PLUG: The Labor Department has gotten in on the Trump administration’s slashing of all money going beyond the border, leaving international labor rights specialists in a lurch. DOL canceled dozens of grants awarded by the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, starting with a smaller batch in the middle of March before a much larger round last week.
GOP holdouts push for Afghan visa changes in funding bill - Live Updates - POLITICO

2 months ago | politico.com | Meredith Lee |Mia McCarthy |Hailey Fuchs |Mike DeBonis |Jennifer Scholtes |Jordain Carney | +6 more

House Republicans are set to strip an increase in the number of available visas for Afghan allies who fought alongside U.S. troops.