All posts tagged "Labor"

A GOP senator is catching flak for saying that Americans need to work more, prompting many to point out how his own party created the problem he's trying to address.

"As we have demographic challenges, as we have lower birth rates, an aging workforce, less immigration, we're going to need people to do more work," Sen. Jon Husted said in a clip shared by independent journalist Aaron Rupar.

Political observers immediately seized on the comment....

President Donald Trump has claimed the United States is the "hottest" country and touted the economy as the greatest it's ever been — but he had a different message on Friday and tried to claim the recent jobs report numbers were inaccurate.

Trump appeared to face the rising unemployment rate and shared a few excuses to justify why he thinks the job market has struggled following the November jobs report that hinted at a weakening labor market.

He wrote this on his Truth Social platform: ...

Longtime Republican strategist Rick Tyler slammed former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant vision for the future in an MSNBC panel on Wednesday, following a political event in Michigan the previous day in which Trump warned that immigrants would invade people's houses if he's not elected.

In particular, Trump invoked the tragedy of Ruby Garcia, a woman believed to have been killed by an unauthorized immigrant — while falsely claiming that he spoke to her family when he hadn't, and couldn't even get her age right.

"It says something to me ... he thinks about a young woman who suffered a grievous crime, and he sees her as 17, he makes her 17," said anchor Joy Reid. "To me, that says something about his psychology which is gross and weird. Imagines her as a teenager when she's a 25-year-old woman. Doesn't know her age or anything about her and lies about talking to her family. He would never talk to her family. She's Latina, she's the kind of person he wants to deport."...

DETROIT — The United Auto Workers and Stellantis NV have reached a tentative agreement toward ending a 44-day strike, according to a source familiar with the information. The agreement, whose wording is being finalized, mirrors the economics of the tentative deal the union reached with Ford Motor Co. earlier this week, according to the source who only could speak on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to do so publicly. It also includes product allocation for most U.S. plants, including vehicle assembly at the Belvidere, Illinois, assembly plant that Stellantis idled ear......

Center Line (United States) (AFP) - The US auto workers union expanded a strike against two of Detroit's "Big Three" on Friday, while President Joe Biden announced plans to join the picket line in solidarity with employees. Some 5,600 members of the United Auto Workers union walked out of 38 US parts and distribution centers at General Motors and Stellantis at noon Friday, adding to last week's dramatic worker walkout. The UAW has described its campaign as an effort to level the economic playing field for the working class, but Friday's events also underscored the lofty political stakes, with ......

By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The United Auto Workers union has made some headway in labor talks with the Detroit Three automakers just three days before a potential strike of 146,000 U.S. autoworkers, but an agreement was still not in reach, UAW President Shawn Fain said on Monday. "We've made some progress, a little bit of progress but it's still slow but we're moving," Fain told CNN. "We have a long way to go. ... There's a lot of issues." Chrysler-parent Stellantis said earlier Monday that it planned to make another counteroffer after the union made a revised offer on Sunday. The current ......