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  1. Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with #health #insurance through #work

    The expiration planned by Congress next month for the “tax credits” (aka subsidies) that allow states to provide the public's access to the healthcare marketplace will create a sudden shock of hundreds of thousands - more likely in the millions - of Americans no longer able to get sickness, disease, and injuries treated; will begin a new period of #medical, #economic and #social collapse. This is combined with massive increases to private insurance including employer-provided plans & programs, and the effective end to all #Medicaid-associated programs nationwide next fall. An avoidable human #catastrophe from #MAGA, which the majority of the US public is only beginning to notice.
    #healthNews #laborNews #labor #USlabor #workers #unions #redistribution #plunder #billionaireSubsidy #wealthTransfer #healthTransfer #insurance #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #limitedPayers #m4a #expandMedicare
    politico.com/news/2025/11/20/i

    > It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.

  2. Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with #health #insurance through #work

    The expiration planned by Congress next month for the “tax credits” (aka subsidies) that allow states to provide the public's access to the healthcare marketplace will create a sudden shock of hundreds of thousands - more likely in the millions - of Americans no longer able to get sickness, disease, and injuries treated; will begin a new period of #medical, #economic and #social collapse. This is combined with massive increases to private insurance including employer-provided plans & programs, and the effective end to all #Medicaid-associated programs nationwide next fall. An avoidable human #catastrophe from #MAGA, which the majority of the US public is only beginning to notice.
    #healthNews #laborNews #labor #USlabor #workers #unions #redistribution #plunder #billionaireSubsidy #wealthTransfer #healthTransfer #insurance #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #limitedPayers #m4a #expandMedicare
    politico.com/news/2025/11/20/i

    > It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.

  3. Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with #health #insurance through #work

    The expiration planned by Congress next month for the “tax credits” (aka subsidies) that allow states to provide the public's access to the healthcare marketplace will create a sudden shock of hundreds of thousands - more likely in the millions - of Americans no longer able to get sickness, disease, and injuries treated; will begin a new period of #medical, #economic and #social collapse. This is combined with massive increases to private insurance including employer-provided plans & programs, and the effective end to all #Medicaid-associated programs nationwide next fall. An avoidable human #catastrophe from #MAGA, which the majority of the US public is only beginning to notice.
    #healthNews #laborNews #labor #USlabor #workers #unions #redistribution #plunder #billionaireSubsidy #wealthTransfer #healthTransfer #insurance #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #limitedPayers #m4a #expandMedicare
    politico.com/news/2025/11/20/i

    > It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.

  4. Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with #health #insurance through #work

    The expiration planned by Congress next month for the “tax credits” (aka subsidies) that allow states to provide the public's access to the healthcare marketplace will create a sudden shock of hundreds of thousands - more likely in the millions - of Americans no longer able to get sickness, disease, and injuries treated; will begin a new period of #medical, #economic and #social collapse. This is combined with massive increases to private insurance including employer-provided plans & programs, and the effective end to all #Medicaid-associated programs nationwide next fall. An avoidable human #catastrophe from #MAGA, which the majority of the US public is only beginning to notice.
    #healthNews #laborNews #labor #USlabor #workers #unions #redistribution #plunder #billionaireSubsidy #wealthTransfer #healthTransfer #insurance #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #limitedPayers #m4a #expandMedicare
    politico.com/news/2025/11/20/i

    > It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.

  5. Looming affordability crisis set to hit Americans with #health #insurance through #work

    The expiration planned by Congress next month for the “tax credits” (aka subsidies) that allow states to provide the public's access to the healthcare marketplace will create a sudden shock of hundreds of thousands - more likely in the millions - of Americans no longer able to get sickness, disease, and injuries treated; will begin a new period of #medical, #economic and #social collapse. This is combined with massive increases to private insurance including employer-provided plans & programs, and the effective end to all #Medicaid-associated programs nationwide next fall. An avoidable human #catastrophe from #MAGA, which the majority of the US public is only beginning to notice.
    #healthNews #laborNews #labor #USlabor #workers #unions #redistribution #plunder #billionaireSubsidy #wealthTransfer #healthTransfer #insurance #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #limitedPayers #m4a #expandMedicare
    politico.com/news/2025/11/20/i

    > It’s a perilous combination for 165 million people with employer-sponsored health insurance. Premiums are rising, while yearly pay raises shrink.

  6. A recent X post claimed the U.S. Department of Labor’s images promote a nostalgic, all-white America—featuring a lone white man and a stereotypical white family—ignoring the nation’s diversity. This raises serious questions about representation and bias, especially when minorities make up nearly 40% of the workforce. The images reflect a nostalgic fantasy that doesn’t match reality and underscore how misinformation can distort perceptions. As social media floods us with untruths, it’s vital to verify what’s real—so don’t take everything at face value. Curious about what the Department of Labor’s feed really shows? Dive in: chicago.suntimes.com/columnist #MediaLiteracy #Representation #Misinformation #Diversity #USLabor #SocialMedia #Truth

  7. "A lawsuit by a coalition of #laborUnions Thursday prompted the #Labor Department to agree not to release any sensitive economic and privacy data to #DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency led by billionaire Trump donor Elon #Musk."

    guests: Rob Shriver of Democracy Forward & Robert Weissman of Public Citizen

    democracynow.org/2025/2/7/doge
    #DOGElawsuit #USlabor #USlaborMovement #USpol #USpolitics #DOGEbags #oligarchs #MAGA

  8. "Kate Wolf speaks with filmmakers Brett Story and Stephen Maing about their new #documentary #Union, which is out in theaters now. It follows, in real time, the forming of the first ever #Amazon union in the country, the #ALU, at the JKF8 plant in Staten Island. Later in the conversation #ChrisSmalls, the president of ALU, joins as well."

    lareviewofbooks.org/av/the-fig

    #AmazonLaborUnion #USLaborMovement #USlabor #TradeUnions #unionization #cinema #CinémaEngagé @film

  9. Excellent presentation at #HaymarketBooks' #Socialism2024 conference by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke, author of #BlueCollarEmpire, about the #AFLCIO's sordid history of collaboration with #USimperialism, from the destabilization/overthrow of progressive governments to the undermining and violent repression of labour/progressive movements at home and abroad

    youtu.be/294Ned7QB0U
    #USlabor #labor #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

  10. Excellent presentation at #HaymarketBooks' #Socialism2024 conference by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke, author of #BlueCollarEmpire, about the #AFLCIO's sordid history of collaboration with #USimperialism, from the destabilization/overthrow of progressive governments to the undermining and violent repression of labour/progressive movements at home and abroad

    youtu.be/294Ned7QB0U
    #USlabor #labor #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

  11. Excellent presentation at #HaymarketBooks' #Socialism2024 conference by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke, author of #BlueCollarEmpire, about the #AFLCIO's sordid history of collaboration with #USimperialism, from the destabilization/overthrow of progressive governments to the undermining and violent repression of labour/progressive movements at home and abroad

    youtu.be/294Ned7QB0U
    #USlabor #labor #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

  12. Excellent presentation at #HaymarketBooks' #Socialism2024 conference by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke, author of #BlueCollarEmpire, about the #AFLCIO's sordid history of collaboration with #USimperialism, from the destabilization/overthrow of progressive governments to the undermining and violent repression of labour/progressive movements at home and abroad

    youtu.be/294Ned7QB0U
    #USlabor #labor #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

  13. Excellent presentation at #HaymarketBooks' #Socialism2024 conference by #labour historian #JeffSchuhrke, author of #BlueCollarEmpire, about the #AFLCIO's sordid history of collaboration with #USimperialism, from the destabilization/overthrow of progressive governments to the undermining and violent repression of labour/progressive movements at home and abroad

    youtu.be/294Ned7QB0U
    #USlabor #labor #LabourHistory #LaborHistory #UShistory #USpol #USpolitics #CIA #ColdWar #anticommunism #books

  14. "At Mercedes, rank-and-file workers, not UAW officials, have taken the lead in organizing the plant. 'Workers at #Mercedes have literally run this campaign with very little help from us,' Fain said. 'They wanted it that way. It’s great to see those workers feeling their power and being able to exercise their power.'"
    :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow:
    portside.org/2024-04-23/volksw

    #UAW #USLabor #labor #uspol #1u #union

  15. Here’s Hamilton Nolan on the ACLU’s dalliance with this “the NLRB ruled against us so it’s unconstitutional, actually” line of thinking: thenation.com/article/economy/

    #labor #USlabor #1u

  16. Absolutely obsessed with these photographs from a 1937 meeting of the Southern Tenants Farmers Union:

    flickr.com/photos/kheelcenter/

    (Let’s all pretend I’ve already deciphered the acronym.)

    More about the union, and their history: encyclopediaofarkansas.net/ent

    #labor #USlabor #LaborHistory #unions #1u

  17. And joining these horrorclowns in the “labor regulators are unconstitutional, actually” case is [checks notes] trader joes bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

    #labor #USlabor #1u

  18. The NLRB finds SpaceX guilty of illegally firing workers who engaged in federally protected activities; in response, SpaceX files a lawsuit arguing that the NLRB’s enforcement mechanisms are unconstitutional.

    the whole thing would be hilariously tim curry bellows at sky dot gif, if it wasn’t so horrifying

    theverge.com/2024/1/4/24025712

    #labor #USlabor #1u

  19. CW: question about unions (US-specific)

    I’m seeing union press releases touting tentative agreements — i.e., agreements that haven’t yet been ratified.

    Two examples:

    cwa-union.org/news/cwa-passeng
    cwa-union.org/news/releases/ze

    That feels new to me; does anyone know the benefit to talking up a TA, rather than waiting for the contract to be ratified?

    [Editing to add: Asked and answered! Thanks *very* much to those who weighed in 💖]

    #unions #uslabor #1u

  20. Oh, this is good: a forceful, cogent argument outlining why business leaders need to work with, not against, organized labor, published in

    [checks notes]

    [pauses]

    [checks notes again]

    Harvard Business Review what is happening hbr.org/2023/07/the-labor-savv

    #labor #USlabor #unions