NEW: White House official confirmed for me that Joe Biden just fired Peter Robb after he refused to resign as NLRB general counsel.
Dave Jamieson
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- BREAKING: The labor board has denied Amazon's request to stop the union election from going forward at its Alabama warehouse. Ballots are scheduled to go out in the mail Monday morning. This thing is on.
- .@Shut_downAmazon of @amazonlabor in the Senate: “First of all, I want to address Mr. Graham. It sounds like you were talking about more of the companies and the businesses in your speech, but you forgot that the people are the ones who make these companies operate.”
- Always worth mentioning amid the Teamsters dialogue: Kamala Harris was the Senate's tie-breaking vote on an $86 billion pension rescue that benefited the Teamsters more than any other union.
- This was in a hearing about overtime pay — a hearing literally about people working more than 40 hours a week."There's just a lot of people in this country that don't want to work…and want somebody else to take care of them. That's not what this country is all about.” @virginiafoxx 🔥🔥🔥
00:00 - A lot of folks were wondering who the 5 senators were who voted against guaranteeing workers reasonable break time to pump breast milk. (It passed 92-5.) They were: --John Cornyn (R-Tex.) --Mike Lee (R-Utah) --Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) --Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) --Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
- NEW: So yesterday Biden asked for the resignations of all of Trump's anti-union members of the Federal Service Impasse Panel. Panel's director just told me 8 of 10 members resigned as asked by 5 pm Tues. TWO refused to resign -- so Biden fired them.
- I regret to inform you that Chuck Schumer just said ‘erection’ instead of ‘insurrection’ on the Senate floor
00:00 - BREAKING: The Labor Dept has released some horrifying findings in its child labor investigation in meatpacking plants. They say Packers Sanitation employed *at least 102 kids* as young as 13 across 8 states. Minors cleaned 'back saws, brisket saws and head splitters.'
- BREAKING: In a rare bipartisan win, the Senate just voted to include the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in the omnibus spending package. The amendment passed 73 to 24. This has been a years-long fight to guarantee basic accommodations for pregnant workers. It's a very big deal.
- EXCLUSIVE: I spoke with Medieval Times workers about why they want to unionize their castle. What they deal with is nuts: guests spooking the horses, grabbing the falcon, even putting their hands on the queen. They want better pay and safety -- and respect
- Seven major unions just sent a joint letter to Biden calling on him to "immediately halt all military aid to Israel" ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to Washington: --SEIU --NEA --UAW --UE --APWU (postal workers) --AFA (flight attendants) --IUPAT (painters)
- BREAKING: in a tremendous upset @amazonlabor has made history and won the election at Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse. Final vote: 2,654 YES 2,131 NO 67 challenged ballots won’t make the difference. This is the first union inside Amazon in the United States.
