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New Trump Overtime Rules Will Cost Workers $1.4 Billion in First Year Alone

The Trump administration’s Labor Department issued new overtime rules this week that take away $1.4 billion of workers’ pay every year compared to the Obama administration rules they replace. The amount of this pay cut for workers will increase enormously over time.
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New Proposal Would Keep Millions of Working People from Getting Overtime

The Donald Trump administration is proposing a new overtime regulation that would protect at least 2.8 million fewer workers than the overtime regulation proposed by the Obama administration in 2016.
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Future of Work Commission Urges Bargaining Rights for Digital Platform Workers

A landmark report by the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Global Commission on the Future of Work, released today, calls for giving full rights and protections, including collective bargaining rights, to digital platform workers. The ILO is the United Nations agency charged with promoting decent work and global labor standards.
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Seven Reasons Why The Republican Tax Bill is Bad For Working People

A summary of the reasons working people oppose the GOP tax bill.
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Labor Department Proposes Legalizing Wage Theft

Too many restaurant owners already break the law by stealing tips from their servers. Now the Labor Department wants to give its blessing to this kind of wage theft.
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Here Come the Republican Benefit Cuts

First, they run up the deficit with massive tax giveaways for millionaires and Wall Street; then they use the deficit as an excuse to cut benefits for working people.