by Sasha Abramsky | Dec 17, 2025 | Donald Trump, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, FEC, Federal Election commission, Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, National Labor Relations Board, NLRB, Op-Ed, Regulation, Regulations, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Supreme Court, Trump Administration
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this month in a case that could dramatically strengthen presidential authority over federal regulatory agencies for the decades to come. The case, Trump v. Slaughter, grew out of President Donald Trump’s firing of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) board member, Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat — whom Trump himself had appointed during his first term in…
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by Jesse Baum | Oct 17, 2025 | labor, News, NLRB, Unions
When a Dollar General stocker named David Williams saw two of his co-workers struggling to subdue a would-be shoplifter who was carrying a knife in 2019, the then-33-year-old kept his mouth shut. Later, when a co-worker asked him why he did nothing, Williams told him the truth. “I said, ‘No offense, but I only get paid one time, and that is to be a stocker,’” said Williams…
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