Jody Calemine

This literally made me LOL. Hat tip to Wyden.

If Congress doesn’t act quickly to permanently extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits, health insurance premiums will more than DOUBLE for 22 million people.

Fund the government.
Fix the health care crisis.
Put working people first.

Millions of Americans are left to pay the price while Republicans play political games. The game pieces are our healthcare and our lives.

Solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org fighting for a fair contract! NYC is a union town and we are proud to stand together to support these workers!

#NoContractNoCoffee #1u

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News 'You Don't Have An Answer?': Richard Blumenthal Stunned By VA Official's Response

Top VA officials testified that they don’t know how many doctors and nurses have left.

We do.

The VA is down 600+ doctors and 1,900+ nurses this year.

After years of growth, the number of docs has declined each month since Trump took office.

www.propublica.org/article/vete...

The Datsun Also Rises

The Grapes of RAV

Tell Congress: stop health care price spikes. Call: 855-493-4407 | AFL-CIO

Time is running out.

22 MILLION will immediately face insurance hikes.
130,000 health care jobs will be lost.
4.2 MILLION will lose health care.
Everyone will pay more.

Tell Congress: permanently extend ACA tax credits and stop the health care crisis! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

Jeffries and Schumer respond to the OMB memo as a shutdown nears.

We won’t let VA Secretary Doug Collins gut workers’ union rights without a fight.

Veterans, VA workers and allies gathered at the Veterans Affairs headquarters in Washington D.C. to tell Secretary Collins to stop privatization and restore VA workers’ collective bargaining rights NOW!

NO WORKERS? NO STARBUCKS 🗣️

NO CONTRACT? NO COFFEE 🗣️

Nurses in Iowa Are Fighting an Unprecedented Anti-Union Campaign Hospital system UnityPoint would rather spend millions on anti-union ‘educators’ than on safe staffing policies.

While nurses in Iowa work to form a union and call for new workplace policies designed to keep them safe, their hospital is on track to set a record for the most expensive anti-union effort ever taken by a hospital. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social reports:

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However it makes anyone look, acting as if Congress appropriated what you wanted when it hasn’t would substantially dissolve the legislature, yes? Without the power of the purse, already weakened by impoundments, how much is left of Congress? Pass another law and say we really mean it this time?

Release the Homan video

In a plea for di$course, Klein asserts, “We are going to have to live here with each other.” And yet that is the very thing his far right partners do not accept. Explain it to the billions being spent on ICE, or to Kilmeade who wants to kill the homeless, or the reps who wanna round up trans people.

Federal workers make our country run. When they have a strong voice on the job, it makes every worker stronger, our essential services stronger and helps the government better serve the public.

America’s unions stand with all federal workers fighting for their union rights.

Workers at Hilton Americas-Houston hotel have EXTENDED THEIR STRIKE! 💥

They’re putting it all on the line — sacrificing their time and paychecks to fight for better wages and respect on the job.

Their fight is our fight. Donate to the strike fund now: www.gofundme.com/f/support-hi...

Illinois professors face threats after landing on Charlie Kirk group watchlist An online database compiled by a group affiliated with slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk identifies close to 50 Illinois college instructors it labels "radical professors."

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing.

#twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

A Senate bill seeks to restore collective bargaining for federal workers - WTOP News A group of senators introduced legislation on Capitol Hill that’s designed to restore collective bargaining rights to a huge swath of federal employees.

Big thanks to Senator Warner and all the original cosponsors who introduced this bill to reverse the single biggest act of unionbusting in American history. Each day, we’re building momentum to rescind Trump’s bogus, illegal, unconstitutional EO.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

How to Defend Members from Politicized Firings Can a worker be fired simply for expressing an opinion that the boss or a political group finds objectionable? These days online attackers often campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for poli...

Can workers be fired just for expressing opinions the political class objects to? Lately, online attackers campaign to pressure employers to fire workers for political speech even on private social media pages. Here's how stewards can intervene: labornotes.org/2025/09/how-...

How Trump Broke Corporate America’s Most Valuable Consultant Businesses are begging the White House and RFK Jr. to rethink their massive cuts to Niosh, a workplace research agency that saves the US billions of dollars a year.

Asbestos. Silica. Black lung. Lead.

NIOSH is the research agency you've never heard of (and the whole world relies on) to keep workers safe on the job and help businesses create healthier workplaces.

And Trump/DOGE cuts have decimated it.

Brilliant, accurate, incisive.

Kari Lake urged mothers not to send their kids to college, claiming the accused Charlie Kirk shooter was “brainwashed.” TikTok video by mediaite

Brainwashing is such a weird term.

Anyway, with the purchase of TikTok, we are going to see a real major govt psyop at scale.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMJMdCHB/

Attempts to rebrand the 'Big Beautiful Bill' won’t fool West Virginians • West Virginia Watch The “Big Beautiful Bill” takes away health care and food assistance and raises costs — while handing tax cuts to the wealthy.

COMMENTARY: If you scroll through social media, you’ll see our members of Congress and special interest groups practically begging West Virginians to believe that the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is good for us. But West Virginians know a bad deal when we see one, writes Kelly Allen.

Tell the Senate: Pass the Protect America's Workforce Act. Call your senator: 844-994-4554 | AFL-CIO

President Trump’s executive order to gut federal workers’ union rights was the worst act of union-busting in history. But the Senate just introduced a bipartisan bill to stop it.

Tell your senators: cosponsor the Protect America’s Workforce Act! act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

The only thing religious about this move is the way it stinks to high heaven.

workers marching with a sign the Constitutional Pledge banner

a roach on the floor

BREAKING: Yoshinoya workers in Los Angeles are on strike due to obscene workplace health and safety related issues including roaches in the food service areas, as well as retaliation for speaking up.

#UnionsForAll #SolidaritySeason

What Trump’s Executive Order on 401(K)s Means for Workers Who Hope to Retire More workers may lose their hard-won retirement savings now that Trump has pushed them toward crypto and private equity.

A new Trump executive order has opened the door for 401(K) holders to invest in private equity, cryptocurrency, and other alternative assets. Economist Gerald Epstein says these not only come with high risks, but the so-called alternative assets deliver, at best, average returns.

CALL: Reverse Gutting of Core Worker Safety Agency, NIOSH Due to Elon Musk and his unaccountable DOGE, we are facing one of the largest mass firings of federal workers in history, including highly technical federal workers who keep us safe on the job. More...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health conducts essential research that keeps workers safe. But the Trump admin wants to continue to gut this critical agency.

Workplace safety is not optional. Tell Congress: stop cuts to NIOSH!