Posts tagged National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
How are unions pushing back against Trump’s attacks on labor and layoffs?
October 21, 2025 // Unions are battling the administration in federal courtrooms nationwide, after filing dozens of lawsuits to try to halt attempts to shed hundreds of thousands of government employees, strip collective bargaining rights from over a million workers, and gut some federal agencies. On Wednesday, they made a significant breakthrough: Judge Susan Illston, of the US district court’s northern district of California, granted a temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s latest mass layoffs from the government shutdown.
UAW Joins Critics Slamming RFK Jr.’s Cuts to Worker Safety Unit
April 8, 2025 // While other unions, like those representing miners, have criticized the NIOSH cuts, the UAW adds an especially powerful voice to the opposition. With about 400,000 active members, the union secured significant wage gains from the three largest US automakers in 2023 after a six-week work stoppage. In a letter to senators last week, a coalition calling itself the “Friends of NIOSH” also asked senators to reverse the cuts, saying “the health and safety of the American workforce is a shared goal of all our organizations.”