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A “catastrophic” exodus of thousands of employees from the US Department of Labor threatens “all of the core aspects of working life”, insiders have warned, amid fears that the Trump administration will further slash the agency’s operations. The federal agency has already lost about 20% of its workforce, according to employees, as nearly 2,700 staff […]
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Fear and anxiety are running high in Windsor, Ontario, after carmaker Stellantis announced it will temporarily shutdown its assembly plant in the Canadian border city next week as a result of US President Donald Trump’s auto tariffs. Derek Gungle, who is among the 4,500 people employed at the plant, says the temporary pause in operations […]
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday. On Friday, Congress was
President Trump has said that the global tariffs he plans to announce this week will correct decades of unfair relationships and stop other countries from ripping off the United States. But whether the president’s so-called reciprocal tariffs will result in higher levies on other nations or lower ones remains unclear. The president has described his […]
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday gutted three oversight offices by placing more than 100 workers on paid leave, a Trump administration official and two former officials said. The workers, including those in the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, were given layoff notices as part of a large-scale government […]
Two judges ordered US President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who lost their jobs as part of mass firings across multiple government agencies. The federal judges, one in the US state of Maryland, the other in California, separately found legal problems with the way the mass terminations were carried […]
A federal judge on Thursday ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of workers with probationary status who had been fired as part of President Trump’s government-gutting initiative. Ruling from the bench, Judge William H. Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California went further than a previous ruling. He found […]
Workers began dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. The process of dismantling the Black Lives Matter plaza in Washington began Monday marking the end of an era for a site that became an emblem of racial justice activism. Republicans cheered the dismantling saying ‘America is finally healing’ as videos of the demolition surfaced. BLM […]
GUISSONA, Spain (AP) — Inside a cavernous production plant in Spain, people from 62 nationalities work side by side to keep a food company humming as millions of legs of ham travel on hooks along conveyor belts. Foreign workers have helped to make Spain’s economy the envy of the industrialized world, even as anti-immigration sentiments […]