On Monday, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced her resignation from the department, amid multiple allegations against her and her family members regarding sexual misconduct, abuse of employees, and inappropriate communications with workers. The scandal likely runs deeper than her family circle, as several other aides within the department have resigned as a result of an internal…
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One year into President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, workers’ rights advocates are sounding the alarm on the erosion of workplace safety laws. A recent report published by Good Jobs First, a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability, found that under the second Trump Administration, there has been a significant drop in the federal…
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The Trump administration’s Department of Labor sparked outcry this weekend after using language on social media that many observers pointed out echoes a phrase commonly used in Nazi propaganda — following months of post after post from the agency espousing white nationalist sentiments. On Saturday, the Labor Department wrote on social media: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.
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Thirty-two-year-old Long Island resident Kathleen Downes, creator of The Squeaky Wheelchair blog, is a licensed social worker who is involved in a host of local and national advocacy efforts. As someone with quadriplegic multiple sclerosis, she needs help getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing, doing her hair, and preparing meals. Thankfully, she says, she receives a small amount of…
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