Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives upheld the Senate’s revisions to the budget bill working its way through Congress. The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” repeals clean energy investments that would create millions of manufacturing and construction jobs around the country.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
Union leaders and labor advocates from across Wisconsin held a virtual press conference today to speak out against President Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Press Releases & Statements / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced today the cancellation of two rules regulating carbon dioxide and toxic air pollution from power plants.
Testimony & Comments / Workers' Rights
We write in strong opposition to the Office of Personnel Management’s proposed rule titled “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service,” published on April 23, 2025. Contrary to its stated intentions, this proposed rule would severely undermine the integrity and professionalism of the federal civil service by
reviving and expanding upon the discredited “Schedule F” policy from the first Trump administration—rebranded as “Schedule Policy/Career.”
Press Releases & Statements / Fairness for Workers and Communities
President Donald Trump celebrated the first 100 days of his second term in office today. Since he took the oath of office, Trump has put America on the path to a recession, gutted our government’s capacity to serve the public good, assaulted workers’ rights, and punished his political enemies.
Policy Priorities / Workers' Rights
States, municipalities, and companies can protect workers who are exposed to extreme heat by ensuring that safeguards are put into a written policy and enforced. The checklist below is your tool to ensure that workers are safeguarded against the threat of deadly heat exposure. Provisions are science-backed and designed to prevent heat illness before it…
Press Releases & Statements / Equity and Healthy and Safe Communities
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began laying off thousands of workers yesterday under the direction of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This was part of the agency’s reduction in force plan to fire 10,000 HHS workers.
Press Releases & Statements / Workers' Rights
President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Thursday night that would end collective bargaining for any federal employee he determines is working on matters of national security.
Press Releases & Statements / Clean Economy Union Jobs
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin today announced plans to overturn more than 30 regulations and other policies that protect public health, support job creation, and ensure that Americans have access to clean air.
Press Releases & Statements / Workers' Rights
Recognizing the importance of defending the right of working people to organize and form unions at this moment, U.S. Representatives Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, reintroduced the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO)…
Reports & Fact Sheets / Workers' Rights
Employers in the United States have a legal and moral imperative to protect the lives and well-being of their workers by providing safe and healthy working conditions. Commonsense protections such as water, rest, shade, training, and first aid procedures are crucial for meeting this central obligation to heat-exposed workers.