Hundreds of thousands of workers in the Food Chain Workers Alliance and SEIU’s United Service Workers West will rise up in a general strike resistance action on May Day. May 1st is International Workers Day.
A statement on the United Service Workers West Facebook page made the call to join the “Day Without The People” general strike on May Day.
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says Trump's budget is a "disaster for public investment".
Despite promising to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure rebuilding to create jobs, Trump's budget actually cuts the Department of Transportation budget by 13 percent. And there's no infrastructure jobs investment in the budget.
EPI says Trump is taking money from the already small non-defense discretionary spending federal budget to pay for military and border security increases.
Eighty-seven civil rights groups have serious concerns about the nomination of Alexander Acosta as Trump's Labor Secretary.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights wants a thorough review of Acosta's nomination before Senate confirmation. Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, says the Secretary of Labor should uphold the Labor Department's mission of protecting the welfare, health and safety of American workers.
The new draft to repeal the Affordable Care Act by Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and the GOP Leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives goes a lot further to undermine the health care for Californians than simply undoing the coverage for many of the five million Californians getting direct help from the Affordable Care Act.
The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says under the current Republican health care bill 14 million more people will be uninsured by 2018.
The number of uninsured would rise to 24 million by 2016 according to the CBO.
The CBO says some of this number will be people who can't afford to pay higher premiums. Part of that number will be people who buy insurance now to avoid the government penalty for not having it.
Reductions in Medicaid enrollment under the GOP plan would create more uninsured.
Your boss could make you submit to genetic testing under the Republican backed U.S. House Bill 1313. If you refuse to undergo the testing as part of an employer wellness program you could be charged thousands of dollars more per year for your healthcare.
The bill was introduced by GOP Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina.
More than 60 organizations oppose this bill because it undermines basic privacy for workers under the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Americans For Tax Fairness says the Republican plan to kill the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, will deliver billions of dollars in tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy while adding taxes to working families.
Americans For Tax Fairness is a coalition of groups including the AFL-CIO and SEIU.
House Republicans want to tax worker's health care benefits - a huge $200 billion new tax on middle class workers.
A new CNN/ORC poll shows strong public support for government investment in infrastructure to create jobs and for cutting taxes on the middle class.
Fifty-eight percent said they oppose increasing military spending or spending money to build a wall on the U.S. Mexican border.
Fifty-four percent of Americans in the poll said economic growth should be a higher priority than cutting government spending.
AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka issued a brief statement about meeting with Trump.
Trumka said he met with Trump to talk "about a working families’ agenda that helps workers who are facing stagnant and declining wages, jobs going overseas, and a loss of rights on the job."
Trumka says among the issues discussed were trade and infrastructure.
Trumka also raised issues that allow Wall Street and corporations to take advantage of workers while lowering wages and stripping workers of rights.
About 25% of the Environmental Protection Agency's budget is being cut in the Trump budget. Approximately 3,000 EPA jobs will be cut - going from 15,000 down to 12,000.
John O'Grady is President of AFGE's National Council of EPA Locals, the largest union representing EPA workers.