The U.S. Postal Serice is ending post office services at Staples stores by March.

The American Postal Workers Union protested the program for years as about 500 Staples stores did postal work that post office employees used to provide.

American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein says he hopes the end of the postal service privatization effort at Staples stores means better postal services for the public going forward. 

The AFL-CIO says Congress should abandon plans for the "reckless repeal of the Affordable Care Act without providing an immediate replacement. Approximately 20 million people have insurance through the Affordable Care Act that they will lose if its repealed.

Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of labor—fast food CEO Andrew Puzder—would be a disaster for working Americans. He’s railed against a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, opposed expanding overtime pay and supported replacing working people with machines. Of his Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants that were investigated for labor law complaints, 60% were found to have violated the law.

The National Law Employment Project says workers in at least 40 cities and states will get raises in 2017. The federal minimum wage is still stuck at $7.25 cents an hour because Republicans in Congress refuse to raise it.