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Democrats appear to be unmoved by fresh demands from the largest federal employees’ union to reopen the government, a sign that the shutdown stalemate between lawmakers will continue as government workers increasingly feel the pain during the process. It’s the latest example of how pressure points have not had the power to bring an end to the current shutdown, which is already the second longest in US history with no end in sight. Over one million federal workers are going unpaid as the impasse drags on and some are turning to food pantries. Democrats were quick to say they care...

Two national public employee unions sued the Trump administration over its restrictions preventing illegal immigrants from obtaining commercial drivers licenses. The American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees filed a petition for review against the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The employee unions challenged a rule implemented by Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy restricting foreign individuals from receiving commercial drivers licenses. Commercial drivers licenses are used for operating large vehicles such as tractor-trailers and buses. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia allow unauthorized immigrants to receive commercial drivers licenses. In California,...

A top deputy to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten has been accused of “fostering a culture of anti-semitism that alienates Jewish members” by a key Republican senator. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, noted in a Thursday letter to Weingarten obtained by The Post that AFT vice president Todd Wolfson hosted a “Scholasticide in Palestine” webinar in March that characterized anti-Israel protests on college campuses — which have included harassment and intimidation of Jewish students and faculty — as “antigenocide speech.”[T]he Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Academic Engagement Network (AEN), Hillel...

On Oct. 20, 2024, Donald Trump performed one of the finest acts of campaign trolling in the history of American politics by working the fryer and serving meals at a McDonald's franchise in eastern Pennsylvania. "Now I have worked at McDonald's," he told reporters while wearing an employee apron and leaning out the drive-thru window. "I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala, she never worked here." Trump's ingenious gambit had the intended effect by highlighting the lack of evidence for Kamala Harris's dubious claim that she "did fries and ... the cashier" at a McDonald's in California during...

Employees of the SunTrapp, a long-standing LGBTQ bar in downtown Salt Lake City, are entering their third week of a strike over wanting to unionize. Morgan Sturgill, who is participating in the strike, said the talk of unionizing started over the summer. “There's been a couple of scenarios where if we had talked about what we wanted before, there was a chance of being demoted, or chance of being let go or just being treated differently afterwards. So it was primarily for that protection,” Sturgill said. “But honestly, the biggest one is policies. A lot of us just want clear...

And the very people who supported Biden’s authoritarian regime are the very same ones protesting. Teachers’ unions, Federal workers unions, the ACLU, atheists, progressives, pro-abortion activists, socialists, climate change activists, etc. The list goes on and on. The No Kings Day organizers even have their own website , with various tools to promote social unrest, and numerous progressive organizations are funding these protests. Here are images of some of their “partners” - a more complete list is linked here.The list of funders is a “who’s who” of progressive, social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion NGOs. One of the main funders...

NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway is a tense place these days after two major labor unions authorized strike action amid ongoing contract negotiations with producers. Actors’ Equity Association — which represents over 51,000 members, including singers, actors, dancers and stage managers — and American Federation of Musicians Local 802 — which represents 1,200 musicians — have voted in favor of a strike authorization, a strategic step ahead of any work stoppage. No strike has been called. Members of both unions are currently working under expired contracts. The musicians’ contract expired on Aug. 31, and the Equity contract expired on Sept....

The nation’s largest teachers' union sent a mass email to its members containing a map that erased the state of Israel and labeled the area "Palestine," along with materials supporting Hamas’ barbaric Oct. 7 attacks. The National Education Association emailed their 3 million teachers of their union materials concerning "teaching about indigenous peoples," which included the map. The materials originally included reading materials from the Palestinian Youth Movement, which has hosted speakers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – which the State Department designates as a foreign terrorist organization. The materials were first exposed by StopAntisemitism, an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With every passing day of the government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay face mounting financial strain. And now they are confronting new uncertainty with the Trump administration’s promised layoffs. “Luckily I was able to pay rent this month,” said Peter Farruggia, a furloughed federal worker. “But for sure I am going to have bills that are going to go unpaid this month, and I really don’t have many options.” Farruggia is the head of the American Federation of Government Employees local representing employees at the Centers for Disease Control and...

Brian Niccol, I call on you to bargain a fair contract with Starbucks Workers United baristas! I support Starbucks baristas in their fight for a union and a fair contract, and pledge not to cross the picket line. That means I will not patronize any Starbucks store when baristas are on strike. Why is this important? Baristas are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. Baristas open the stores every morning and close them every night. They greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, and remember customers’ names and favorite orders. Yet, it’s too hard for baristas...

Back in July, an idea by Kalle Lasn and his colleagues at Adbusters, a nonprofit magazine run by social activists, had started to come together. For months, Lasn had noticed among his 120,000 readers an unresolved anger that wasn’t finding expression. He observed that young people were starting to say they worried about having a “black hole future” ahead of them, and it suddenly felt, he said, “like a Tahrir moment in America was eminently possible.” So the Adbusters team tried something out. They put out feelers for a small protest on Wall Street on Sept. 17. They started a...

EXCLUSIVE: With mediation between Actors’ Equity Association and the Broadway League continuing its second and final scheduled day Thursday, 31 members of Congress — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and GOP Rep. Mike Lawler — have signed a bipartisan letter urging “good faith negotiations” to avoid a strike that could have “significant economic disruption.” Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner for New York City mayor, is pledging solidarity with Equity and musicians union Local 802 AFM “as they fight for the care every worker deserves.” ... Both Equity, which represents stage actors and stage managers, and the Broadway musicians...

The union representing L.A. Times journalists overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike for the first time ever Thursday as they entered the third year of contract negotiations. A strike has not yet been scheduled. What’s new: Union members say they haven’t had a cost-of-living increase since 2021 and have faced intimidation from management to organize. They also want protections against layoffs and stronger guardrails against work done by “freelancers, temps and work done by other companies owned by” Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong. Is this historic? Yes, this is the first-ever strike authorization by the L.A. Times Guild, which was formed...

Randi Weingarten has taken to wearing a paper clip on her lapel as a ­bizarre symbol of her ­crusade against “fascism,” aka Donald Trump. The president of the American Federation of Teachers is on tour to peddle her new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers” — yet another example of prioritizing poisonous politics over education from this Marxist fossil. Not to mention fattening her own wallet. The paper clip, she likes to explain to anyone who will listen — mostly on MSNBC — symbolizes a Norwegian protest against Adolf Hitler in World War II. “Teachers in Norway when there was Nazi...

Federal government labor unions sued Tuesday to block the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs during the potential upcoming government shutdown. Employees are usually temporarily furloughed during a shutdown, except for exempted workers, and receive back pay after a shutdown ends. But Trump and the White House budget office have suggested permanent firings could be on the table if government funding expires at midnight. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleges the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) misinterpreted federal law governing shutdowns when it issued a memo suggesting agencies should “use this opportunity” to consider layoffs...

Leftists effectively run public education through teachers unions, which maintain power by funneling members’ money into the Democratic Party. They are leftists in the full sense of the term; that is, they are evil: X image on link Rest in peace, Trooper Werner Foerster.

The Chicago Teachers' Union is a domestic terrorist organizationDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.Let’s cut to the chase, the Chicago Teachers’ Union is a domestic terrorist organization that runs the city, extracts massive amounts of tax money for its members while openly preaching violence and hate. It’s the best possible argument for the decentralization and privatization of the so-called public school system.Every time you think CTU has hit the...

UPDATED: The man arrested for allegedly shooting into the lobby of Sacramento ABC affiliate KXTV (ABC10) was released from jail on bond Saturday, then taken back into custody by the FBI on a federal charge, according to Sacramento County Main Jail records. Anibal Hernandezsantana, 64, of Sacramento, was arrested in connection with Friday’s shooting on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building, and negligent discharge of a firearm. Sacramento officials confirmed Hernandezsantana had been released from the jail by Saturday afternoon after posting $200,000 bail. He was then arrested later that day on federal charges,...

The number of public school employees who celebrated the political assassination of Christian and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has reached such a high level that teachers’ unions are now tracking Kirk’s supporters and preparing to coordinate the legal defense for teachers whose jobs are now in jeopardy. An internal union email obtained by the Maine Wire shows the National Education Association (NEA) has told its members that it’s monitoring supporters of the slain conservative activist and is preparing legal and communications defenses for school teachers who publicly celebrated his assassination.The email, sent by the head of the NEA’s Portland Education...

NEW: The man who shot up the ABC affiliate in Sacramento following the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, has been identified as Anibal Hernandez-Santana. An X account that appears to belong to Hernandez-Santana is full of anti-Trump posts, as reported by Variety. The man, 64, previously worked as a legislative director for the California Federation of Teachers, the outlet reported. “The authoritarian oligarchy is now complete. CBS+ caving, big law firms in DC, the subservients FBI and AG, university presidents stepping down, fan boys SCOTUS, public radio, ICE goons. We are going to have to ‘fight like hell’…” the account that...