The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts labor's share of GDP at 52.8% for the second quarter of 2026, the lowest since it started measuring in 1947. Corporate profits rose $400.9 billion in the same three months.
On June 21, 2023, the Senate labor committee took up three bills: equal pay, seven paid sick days a year, and the right to organize. All three passed on a party-line 11-10 vote. Collins, a Republican on that committee, was on the losing side of every one, and backed amendments to weaken two of them.
Jackson Nurse Professionals settled a class action in 2022 for close to $2 million, covering about 300 workers who said the company shorted them on overtime, bonuses and the wages they were owed when they left.
Nebraskans used ballot initiatives to win paid sick leave and medical cannabis. Pillen signed a bill narrowing the sick leave law and helped kill the cannabis bill. Now, citing a fraud case his own election officials caught, he wants to restrict the petition process itself.
The No Preference Act would bar every federal agency, including the Pentagon, from favoring a contractor because its workers have a union contract. Stephanie Bice wrote it. Steve Womack, John Rutherford and Jack Bergman signed on.
Iowa Starting Line checked three bills meant to help ordinary workers. On the Faster Labor Contracts Act, all three Iowa Republicans voted no. On the PRO Act and the bill restoring federal workers' bargaining rights, Ashley Hinson voted no again.
Garrity's whole pitch for governor is her 34 years in business at Global Tungsten & Powders. Spotlight PA found that during her years as a director there, the Bradford County plant shed roughly half its workforce while she helped run the company's facility in the Czech Republic.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ordered 110 commercial driver training schools to stop operating over an English-proficiency rule, and moved to remove 160 more. His answer to the trucking shortage: 'We're not gonna have a problem.'
Asked on national television how Florida replaces the Haitian health care workers losing their legal status, the Republican nominee for governor answered with a high school internship program and a promise to supercharge adult education — with no number, no timeline and no cost for either. Nurses and their union say the state is losing trained caregivers it cannot get back.
