Cleveland-Cliffs announces layoffs of 600 Michigan plant workers
Penn Mutual Asset Management CIO Mark Heppenstoll focuses on the latest move by President Donald Trump to impose a 25% tariff on car imports into the US Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs announced this week that it would ignite one of its production plants and fire around 600 workers, citing soft demand for steel used in automobile manufacturing. […]
FACT CHECK: Claim That Over 100 USAID Workers Have Been Arrested For Treason Is Satire
Posts Share on Facebook Claims over 100 employees of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are allegedly arrested by the US Marines on treason. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally derived from a March 25th article published on satirical site Real Raw News. Fact check: The Trump administration has prepared proposals to […]
ACLU Takes Stand Against Dismissals of Federal Workers Focused on DEI Initiatives!
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has submitted a class action lawsuit to the Federal Employment Commission, encouraging employees to think about terminating staff who have participated in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and accessibility initiatives. File two orders President Trump’s signature revisited Election Day, focusing on DEI and accessibility (referred to as DEIA) concerns, […]
Appeals court denies Trump administration’s bid to pause ruling forcing federal agencies to reinstate fired workers
A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied an attempt by the Trump administration to suspend a lower court ruling to restore the thousands of employees fired last month. In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth Circuit rejected the administration's bid to maintain the March 13 preliminary injunction of US District Judge William Alsap, who ordered the […]
3 NYC postal workers kidnapped unconscious coworker during after-work party, 1 attempted to rape her in mail truck: indictment
Three New York City postal workers allegedly dragged an unconscious colleague behind a postal truck. Daniel Jean, 38; Kirt Acala, 38; and 40-year-old Edward Chow was charged with sexually motivating temptation of Jean's colleagues that occurred at a June 8, 2023 post-workplace birthday party in East Village on June 8, 2023, in the East Village, […]
Carney: Trump trade war ‘hurting American consumers and workers’
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he believes Trump's tariffs and trade war would hurt American consumers and workers. “His trade war hurts American consumers and workers, and that's going to hurt even more,” Carney said during his campaign in Ontario. Associated Press. “I think American consumer confidence is at multi-year lows.” Carney, who was […]
Hundreds of Canadian steel workers hit with layoffs as Trump’s tariffs squeeze industry
Hundreds of Canadian workers have already been fired from steel factories as President Trump's tariffs narrow the industry. At least 200 members of United Steelworkers, the largest private sector union in North America, have previously lost employment, according to Marty Warren, the group's national director. United Steelworkers has over 225,000 members in Canada. And Canadian […]
Trump White House asks Supreme Court to pause judge’s ruling to rehire probationary federal workers
Washington – The Trump administration asked supreme court On Monday, it suspended a ruling to halt rehiring of thousands of federal workers, which aimed to dramatically reduce the federal government. The emergency appeal argues that a judge cannot force an administrator to rehire about 16,000 probation employees. The California-based judge discovered that the dismissal was […]
Trump news at a glance: reports of IRS data deal spark fears for undocumented migrant workers | Trump administration
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is reportedly approaching a contract to enable immigration officers to use tax data to support Donald Trump's deportation agenda. Under the proposed data sharing agreement, it is said to be in negotiations for weeks, so immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) can hand over undocumented names and addresses of immigrants to […]
Albany pols push bill honoring families of sanitation workers who responded to 9/11
Albany lawmakers are pushing for a bill to provide to families of late hygiene workers who have put some of the same benefits provided to loved ones of their first responders who died of a 9/11-related illness to ground zero. The Ignazio Jacaron Act gave additional credit to children and siblings of sanitary workers who […]