In 2021, as director of Ohio's Governor's Office of Workforce Transformation, Husted told a county chamber of commerce that repetitive jobs 'are going away' and would 'be replaced by robots.' He said he didn't think that was bad, because those jobs weren't 'enriching.'
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin launched the tip line on September 9. At the March hearing Josh Brecheen chaired, the federal count came to 17 fatal crashes against roughly 4,000 a year, and 200,000 drivers had already begun losing their licenses.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts labor's share of GDP at 52.8% for the second quarter of 2026, the lowest since it started measuring in 1947. Corporate profits rose $400.9 billion in the same three months.
On June 21, 2023, the Senate labor committee took up three bills: equal pay, seven paid sick days a year, and the right to organize. All three passed on a party-line 11-10 vote. Collins, a Republican on that committee, was on the losing side of every one, and backed amendments to weaken two of them.
Jackson Nurse Professionals settled a class action in 2022 for close to $2 million, covering about 300 workers who said the company shorted them on overtime, bonuses and the wages they were owed when they left.
Nebraskans used ballot initiatives to win paid sick leave and medical cannabis. Pillen signed a bill narrowing the sick leave law and helped kill the cannabis bill. Now, citing a fraud case his own election officials caught, he wants to restrict the petition process itself.
The No Preference Act would bar every federal agency, including the Pentagon, from favoring a contractor because its workers have a union contract. Stephanie Bice wrote it. Steve Womack, John Rutherford and Jack Bergman signed on.
Iowa Starting Line checked three bills meant to help ordinary workers. On the Faster Labor Contracts Act, all three Iowa Republicans voted no. On the PRO Act and the bill restoring federal workers' bargaining rights, Ashley Hinson voted no again.
Garrity's whole pitch for governor is her 34 years in business at Global Tungsten & Powders. Spotlight PA found that during her years as a director there, the Bradford County plant shed roughly half its workforce while she helped run the company's facility in the Czech Republic.
