The disagreement between Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden and Appropriations Chair Patty Murray is just the latest symptom of congressional gridlock on trade policy that has allowed multiple programs to expire in recent years. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Congress appropriated nearly $5srcsrc million last year to help American workers whose jobs have been sent
Congress appropriated $500M for workers. Democrats canât agree on whether to spend it.
April 11, 2023 by
McCarthy: 47% of Federal Workers Aren’t in Office, We’re Going to Vote to Make Them Return
March 11, 2023 by
On Mondayâs broadcast of the Fox Business Networkâs âBottom Line,â Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that itâs ridiculous that 47% of the federal government workforce is still working remotely and stated that the House is going to pass legislation âto end this pandemicâ and require federal government employees to return to
Report: East Palestine Derailed Train Broke Down Before; Workers Expressed Concern
March 7, 2023 by
DUSTIN FRANZ/AFP via Getty Images The train that derailed near the Ohio-Pennsylvania line this month â which was carrying toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride â had broken down before on its route as workers expressed concerns about the load size, according to reports. The train derailed in East Palestine on February 3 but reportedly broke down âat least onceâ
Georgia Poll Workers Pick Up Where Jan. 6 Committee Left Off
March 3, 2023 by
Two Georgia poll workers who were attacked by 2020 election conspiracy theorists are picking up where the Jan. 6 congressional investigation left offâby trying to independently examine the private communications between two of the men behind the firestorm: Rudy Giuliani and former President Donald Trump.Giuliani, who played a central role in the Republican attempt to
Biden Finalizes Plan to Import 65K More Foreign Workers for Blue-Collar Jobs
January 12, 2023 by
President Joe Biden will import nearly 65,srcsrcsrc H-2B foreign visa workers to take blue-collar jobs as 11.6 million Americans are jobless and another 3.7 million are underemployed. In October, Bidenâs Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the administration would be allowing businesses to import close to 65,srcsrcsrc additional H-2B foreign visa
Elon Didn’t Mean It!: Musk’s Twitter Asks Workers to Come Back
November 7, 2022 by
After laying off almost half the company last Friday, Elon Musk is asking dozens of employees who were fired to return to work after discovering they were vital to the companyâs operation. Bloomberg reports that following Elon Muskâs dismissal of roughly half of Twitterâs workforce last Friday, the company is now asking dozens of employees to
Watch: Chinese Workers Test Fishermen’s Live Catch for Coronavirus
October 7, 2022 by
The local government of Xiamen, China, recently ordered municipal workers to test both fishermen and their catch, including âlive fishâ and crabs, for the Chinese coronavirus out of alleged concern that international fishing activity in the area may have sparked local outbreaks of the virus, the Chinese government-controlled news outlet Sixth Tone reported Thursday. â[L]ocal…
Say Cheese: China Office Uses AI to Only Let Smiling Workers Enter Building
June 19, 2021 by
Camera manufacturer Canon has invented a new way to boost workplace morale â installing AI cameras in its offices that force workers to smile to enter the building. The Verge reports that Canon has installed cameras with AI-enabled âsmile recognitionâ technology in the offices of its Chinese subsidiary Cannon Information Technology. The cameras only allow smiling…
Labor Union: Biden ‘Devastating’ Union Workers with Plan to Close Prisons
May 23, 2021 by
A labor union with more than 600,000 active and retired members is blasting President Joe Bidenâs ending federal contracts with privately-operated prisons that hold mostly foreign nationals convicted of felonies. After taking office, Biden requested that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) not renew any of its contracts with 11 privately-operated prisons that nearly all hold…
DHS Mayorkas Approves Another 22,000 Foreign Workers
May 22, 2021 by
Joe Bidenâs deputies are admitting another 22,000 foreign workers to help U.S. businesses, regardless of the damage done to working Americans and their communities now recovering from the coronavirus crash. âTodayâs joint rule helps American businesses,â said a statement from Alejandro Mayorkas, the pro-migration lawyer who is now secretary of the Department of Homeland Security…
Foundry Groups: Inability to Find Workers ‘Has Reached Crisis Level,’ Urge End to Extended Unemployment
May 17, 2021 by
The American Foundry Society (AFS) and the Foundry Association of Michigan (FAM) sent a letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) Thursday urging her to end extended unemployment benefits. In a letter obtained by Breitbart News, the two groups said the ânumber one issueâ facing the metalcasting industry is âthe inability to find workersâ and said…
Police: Woman Allegedly Shoots at Burger King Workers over Drive-Thru Wait Time
April 5, 2021 by
Memphis Police Department A drive-thru order took a bad turn on Tuesday when a woman allegedly opened fire into the window of a Burger King in Memphis, Tennessee, according to police. âThe Memphis Police Department said it all started when a woman got angry about how long she was waiting for her food at a…
Biden Adviser Cecilia Rouse on MLB’s Georgia Boycott: ‘Undoubtedly Going to Be a Cost’ to Stadium Workers
April 5, 2021 by
Council of Economic Advisers chair Cecilia Rouse said CBSâs âFace the Nationâ that âthere is undoubtedly going to be a costâ to the majority-black city of Atlantaâs stadium workers because Major League Baseball moved itâs All-Star game move out of Georgia to protest the new voting law. Partial transcript as follows: BRENNAN: This past week, we had a…
Poll: Less than Half of China’s Health Workers Want Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine
February 21, 2021 by
Less than half of healthcare workers polled recently in the Chinese province of Zhejiang would receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate after its emergency approval, while just one-quarter of medical workers in Zhejiang are willing to get a coronavirus vaccine once they are available for all people. Zhejiangâs disease control and prevention center (CDC) surveyed…
California Judge Strikes Down Trump Administration Rules That Would Limit Visas To Skilled Workers
December 3, 2020 by
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White struck down two Trump administration rules Tuesday that would have reduced the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers each year. The Trump administration announced new changes to the H-1B visa program in October, which included new salary requirements on companies that hire foreign skilled workers and limited speciality…
Trump Has Accomplished Progressive Goals Such As Reducing Drug Pricing, Paid Parental Leave For Workers And Criminal Justice Reform
November 26, 2020 by
President Donald Trump championed a series of progressive causes during his time in office, signing executive orders and bills that targeted drug pricing, paid parental leave for workers and criminal justice reform. Trump secured up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for some federal workers when he signed the Defense Authorization Act Dec. 20,…
Workers Arise!
June 29, 2018 by
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday ruled 5-4 that government employee unions cannot force non-members such as Mark Janus, an Illinois state employee, to pay agency fees to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a powerful government employee union. âThis procedure violates the First Amendment and cannot continue,â Justice Samuel Alitoâs majority opinion […]
Democratic Party chairman: SCOTUS âtook away rights of American workersâ
June 28, 2018 by
How can that be? Itâs because when Democrats talk about ârights,â they donât really mean rights. The Democrat vision of America is that the federal government (run by Democrats, of course) orders everything that everyone does and decides how the spoils are divided up. When they force you to do something they have decided is […]
Job Growth for Foreign Workers Growing Twice as Fast as for Native Born Americans.
June 2, 2018 by
Job growth for foreign born workers is growing more than twice as fast as it is for native born American citizens, newly released labor data reveals. According to the May 2018 Jobs Report, employment for foreign born workers grew three percent over the last year. In the same time period, employment for native born Americans […]
9 Times Paul Ryan Put American Workers Last, Foreigners First.
April 12, 2018 by
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) has announced that he will retire from Congress at the end of his term, leaving the door open for an economic nationalist Republican to take over as Speaker. Here, Breitbart News looks at Ryanâs pro-immigration, wage-crushing, big business-first record, whereby American workers have been left behind by multinational free trade […]
Donald Trump Resolute on Tariffs and Trade: I Was Elected to Protect Our Workers.
March 6, 2018 by
President Donald Trump was resolute on his proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, promising to stand for American workers despite complaints from foreign leaders and company CEOs in the United States. âIâm here to protect and one of the reasons I was elected was Iâm protecting our workers, Iâm protecting our companies,â Trump said during a […]
America First: Check Out How 11 Of The Countryâs Biggest Companies Are Helping Workers After Trumpâs Tax Cuts.
February 5, 2018 by
When Donald Trump took office, he promised he would âmake America great again.â One of the ways he said he would achieve this was to bring companies back to the United States by implementing a competitive corporate tax rate. He made good on his promise when he signed his new tax plan, which dropped the […]
Companies Praise Tax Bill, Announce Plans to Reinvest in Workers.
December 21, 2017 by
âTodayâ show host Savannah Guthrie accused Speaker Paul Ryan of living in a âfantasy worldâ this morning because he believes the GOP tax bill will lead to higher wages and significant economic growth. Well, it looks like that fantasy has become a reality. Since the bill passed the Senate (and re-passed the House), multiple corporations […]
More Democrat Sex Abuse: Workers on Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Campaigns Claim Harassment.
November 19, 2017 by
Campaign workers on the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Democratic 2016 presidential campaigns alleged in a report published Friday that they were harassed while campaigning for their respective candidates and that the campaigns failed to address the claims properly â the latest sexual misconduct revelations to rock the Democratic Party. Lilian Adams, a Clinton campaign […]
On This Labor Day Please Remember the 94 Million Killed by Communist Workers Party in the 20th Century
September 4, 2017 by
Labor Day is Communist Workers Party Remembrance Day. On this Labor Day please remember the 94 million brutally murdered, starved, beaten to death and assassinated by Communist regimes in the 20th Century. Reason.com reported: According to a disturbingly pleasant graphic from Information is Beautiful entitled simply 20th Century Death, communism was the leading ideological cause […]
Al-Qaeda Claims USAID Worker’s Murder, But Administration Not Calling It Terrorism
April 28, 2016 by
The Obama administration did not characterize Monday’s brutal slaying of a USAID worker as terrorism on Tuesday despite al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent taking credit for the crime. Xulhaz Mannan, 35, and Mahbub Tonoy, 25, were in their apartment in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday at about 5:30 p.m. when attackers posing as delivery couriers gained […]
Meet the Leader of the National Socialist American Workers Party – VIDEO
February 19, 2016 by
Yes, this is for real. Jim Geraghty explains: Bernie Sandersâ campaign is now selling t-shirts with this design by Shepard Fairey, the guy who made the red-and-light-blue Obama âHOPEâ poster: Finally, the Sanders campaign finds that iconic image that screams ânational socialism.â I guess tomorrow belongs to them. We live in a world where Republicans get […]
UNION: Obama threw workers ‘under the bus’ in Keystone decision
November 6, 2015 by
The main union for construction workers is accusing President Obama of throwing them âunder the busâ by rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline. The Laborersâ International Union of North America (LIUNA) is one of the few labor unions that broke with the majority of Democrats and supported the project, which Obama rejected Friday after a […]
VIDEO: ARE CLINTON CAMPAIGN WORKERS VIOLATING ELECTION LAWS?
September 12, 2015 by
Explosive undercover video purports to show a lawyer working with Hillary Clintonâs campaign in Las Vegas allegedly telling local campaign workers to violate election laws and how to conceal it, and then captures several campaign workers seeming to admit to apparent violations. James OâKeefe strikes again. The Project Veritas Action video appears to show an […]
Expert: Disney Rewards Employees for Record Profits by Replacing Them with Cheaper Foreign Workers
June 9, 2015 by
An Economic Policy Institute expert is highlighting the disconnect between Disney Corporationâs high profits and the companyâs subsequent replacement of its employees with less expensive foreign labor. In a recent blog post, EPI expert Ron Hira, a professor at Howard University, puts the layoffs at Disney and the employees under more scrutiny. He points out […]