Posts tagged DOL
Commentary: Teachers Need to Ditch Their Union
April 16, 2025 // The California Teachers Association, which considers itself “the co-equal fourth branch of government,” per former Democratic State Senate leader Dom Perata, is no better. As the Freedom Foundation notes, the union reports its political expenditures under three separate filings: The Issues Political Action Committee (PAC); The Association for Better Citizenship (ABC); and, The Independent Expenditure Committee (IEC).
DOL Nominee: David Keeling
April 15, 2025 // David Keeling: Nominated David Keeling has been nominated to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. He previously served as Vice President of Global Health and Safety at UPS from 2018 to 2021 and as Director of Global Road and Transportation Safety at Amazon from…
DOL Nominee: Wayne Palmer
April 15, 2025 // Wayne Palmer: Nominated Wayne Palmer has been nominated to serve as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health and to lead the Mines Safety and Health Administration (MSHA). He previously served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for MSHA during President Trump’s first term, including a period…
DOL Nominee: Lori Chavez-DeRemer
April 15, 2025 // Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the 30th U.S. Secretary of Labor, confirmed on March 10, 2025. She previously served as a U.S. Representative for Oregon’s 5th Congressional District (2023-2025) and as the mayor of Happy Valley, Oregon (2011-2019). She is the first Republican woman and one of the first Latinas to represent…
DOL Nominee: Keith Sonderling
April 15, 2025 // Keith Sonderling is the Deputy Secretary of Labor, confirmed on March 10, 2025. He previously served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2020-2024) and held leadership roles in the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division during President Trump’s first term. During his tenure at the…
Op-ed: Trump is neutering the Labor Department
April 12, 2025 // For union president Aliyah Levin, executive vice president Rob Sax and vice president Omar Algeciras, this moment is not just about protecting jobs but about protecting the mission of the department and, by extension, the public. At the core of the union leaders’ concerns is the Trump administration’s clear hostility toward federal civil servants. As Levin put it bluntly, “What is wrong with this administration that they’ve made public servants the enemy?”
UAW Leader Gets $275K Payday While Union Dips Further Into Red
April 3, 2025 // Given the fact that former UAW president Gary Jones pleaded guilty to using union money to pay for personal expenses and was sentenced to 28 months in prison in 2021, it’s no surprise that members are keeping a close eye on executive pay. In Fain’s case, while his gross salary was $229,514, total payments from the union, including official business disbursements, reached $274,407 in 2024. The next top earner within the UAW was Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock,who earned a salary of $224,861, with total payments amounting to $247,169. Vice Presidents Mike Booth, Rich Boyer, and Chuck Browning all received the same $211,001 in gross salaries, while the head of the union’s Stellantis department, Kevin Gotinsky, had a total salary of $177,942. As reported by the Detroit Free Press, the UAW’s membership grew from 370,239 in 2023 to 375,161 in 2024. This came thanks in part to its successful effort to unionize the VW plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but remains down from the 383,003 members it had in 2022.
AAFA reacts to cancellation of labor rights contracts
April 1, 2025 // Among the U.S. contracts canceled were the Global Better Work Program and Better Work Global, which were designed to improve working conditions and enforce labor rights in Haiti, Jordan, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam, per the AAFA release. ILAB was the sole funder of the Better Work Haiti and Better Work Jordan programs, an AAFA spokesperson said in an email. On Tuesday, the AAFA, which represents more than 1,000 fashion industry members, also signed onto a group letter sent to the U.S. Secretary of Labor urging for the reinstatement of the recently rescinded ILAB contract to improve labor rights in the Uzbekistan cotton industry.
What was the impact of AB5 on California’s marginalized communities?
March 31, 2025 // Esther Hermida, a representative of the American Alliance of Professional Translators and Interpreters (AAPTI) testified about AB5’s impact on thousands of citizens in her industry comprised of 75 percent women. One professional translator, Ildiko Santana, reported she started her small business in 2000 as an immigrant and woman of color. She lost all 50 clients and all her income in 2020 when AB5 went into effect.
Pay for Play: Al Sharpton Books Labor Bosses Who Pour Millions Into His Nonprofit on MSNBC Show
March 30, 2025 // In the past year alone, Sharpton, who hosts PoliticsNation on the weekends, has interviewed the presidents of five unions that have given his nonprofit a total of $6.3 million: American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association (NEA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), American Federation of Government Employees, and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). In all, labor unions have given nearly $8 million earmarked as "gifts," "grants," or payments for "political activities" to the National Action Network, which in some years has paid Sharpton a $1 million salary and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for private jets and limo services.