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Tomorrow Is May Day. The Company Already Replaced You.
Read more . . . →Tomorrow is International Workers’ Day. This year, corporations are celebrating by laying off 882 people a day. Tech alone has cut 95,000 jobs in 2026 — Meta starts firing another 8,000 on May 20, Oracle just eliminated 30,000 people to fund $156 billion in AI infrastructure. Not to survive. To accelerate. You were the cost they were looking for an excuse to cut. The framing is always the same: “toward AI,” “efficiency,” “long-term value creation.” What that means is they found the machine that does your job for less. No benefits. No vacation. No back-talk. And the record profits keep...
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"Tariff Relief" Means Pack Up Your Workers and Leave
Read more . . . →Trump dropped his “tariff relief” offer to Canadian steel companies yesterday: move your production to the US or keep paying 50%. The United Steelworkers — the union representing the people actually doing the work in Hamilton, Sault Ste. Marie, and across the country — called it blackmail and extortion. Not metaphorically. That’s the actual terminology for “relocate everything or face consequences.” They chose a precise word and they meant it. The workers on those lines are already being laid off under the current tariff regime. Trump’s offer doesn’t save them — it gives their employers an offramp to close up...
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Your boss made 341 times what you did last year
Read more . . . →The numbers came in. Median CEO pay hit $29.4 million in 2025 — up 23.2% in a single year. Your salary increase was “held steady” at 3.5%. The CEO pay ratio is now 341:1. Last year it was 300:1. They’re moving faster than inflation, just in the wrong direction. This was the same year that Meta cut 700 workers after paying its executives $921 million. The same year Disney, SNAP, and Cleveland Cliffs announced mass layoffs. The board rooms were handing out bonuses at target while HR was firing off termination emails. Nobody called an emergency shareholder meeting about that...
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Cleveland-Cliffs Cuts Another 950 — Seventh Straight Losing Quarter
Read more . . . →Cleveland-Cliffs is shutting mills in Pennsylvania and Illinois and putting 950 more steelworkers on the street at the end of June. That’s on top of the 1,200 they already cut in March. Seventh straight losing quarter, $225 million torched last quarter alone, and CEO Lourenco Goncalves — the guy who spent 2025 on cable news cheerleading Trump’s steel tariffs as the savior of American industry — wants you to know that next quarter is going to be great. Trust him. Here’s the thing the brain trust never figured out: tariffs only save steel if someone still buys the steel. Cars...
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Whirlpool Begged for the Tariffs. It's Still Shipping Jobs to Mexico.
Read more . . . →Whirlpool wrote the tariff playbook. The company lobbied Washington for appliance duties, praised them at every press event, and publicly backed Trump’s “Liberation Day” schedule because — on paper — it was supposed to kneecap LG and Samsung. Turns out the America First poster child just laid off 341 workers at its Amana, Iowa plant this spring, a plant that had 3,000 people in it five years ago. Union reps say it could be down to 500 by year’s end. Where’s the work going? Mexico. Whirlpool poured over a billion dollars into Mexican facilities and tripled its workforce south of...
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HUD Workers Had to Build a Website to Do Their Jobs
Read more . . . →The people whose literal job is to investigate housing discrimination are being told they can’t investigate housing discrimination. HUD civil rights lawyers got fired for going to Congress with concerns that the agency was gutting fair housing enforcement. So they did the most American thing possible — they built a website. “Dear America” is a collection of anonymous employee letters from inside HUD, and the picture they paint is grim: if a case involves race, gender, or sexual orientation, you’re not allowed to touch it. The agency that exists to fight discrimination has been ordered to stop fighting discrimination. Meanwhile,...
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The Tariffs Aren't Working So Naturally We're Getting More Tariffs
Read more . . . →A year into the tariff experiment and the results are in: automakers have eaten $35 billion in costs, American families are paying an extra $1,500 a year, and thousands of autoworkers — the exact people these tariffs were supposed to protect — are sitting at home on indefinite layoff. GM just cut 900 workers at Fairfax. Stellantis workers at Sterling Heights got told not to come in because engines from Mexico aren’t showing up. The tariffs broke the supply chain and the workers got the bill. So what’s the administration’s response to all this winning? More tariffs. USTR Jamieson Greer...
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The Party of the Working Class
Read more . . . →The Trump administration just gutted joint-employer rules and independent contractor protections in the same month. Corporations can now wash their hands of the workers who make them rich while those same workers lose every legal avenue to fight back. The “party of the working class,” everyone.
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