As fear mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the city rebuild and support their families.
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The Federal Employee Red Wedding
This is not about who’s been fired, but who’s still working in the government.
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King Musk’s Government Purge Hits a Snag
Before Elon Musk can exercise authoritarian power, he must purge the federal bureaucracy. But federal workers aren’t playing ball.
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The Musk-Bezos War on Collective Bargaining
When Biden’s NLRB began to restore workers’ rights, the world’s richest men moved to shut down the NLRB altogether.
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Vulnerable Federal Contractors Protest Terminations at USAID
The federal government relies on millions of contract workers who have minimal job protections.
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The ‘Pro-Worker’ Portable Benefits Scam
Big Tech app companies want to evade employment law, and they’re hoping Republicans will help.
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Probationary Federal Employees Targeted for Mass Purge
As many as 200,000 federal employees with weaker civil service protections could be let go. But they are supposed to only be fired for poor performance.
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After Building Service Workers Mobilize, FTC Stops Secret No-Hire Agreements
A key tool that enables contractors to trap building services personnel in low-wage work has been upended by a bipartisan majority at the Federal Trade Commission.
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Labor’s Prodigal Son Returns
SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.
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These Teachers Will Have to Cross Party Lines to Get a Union
Can educators in California’s largest nonunion public school district—in a county that flipped to Trump—upend a 65-year tradition?