BERKELEY, Calif. — Organized labor stands ready to help combat climate change — but not if it means sacrificing well-paying jobs, AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka told an international audience of union officials. “We’re willing to sacrifice, but we will not bear the cost of climate policy alone,” he said. “This […]
Less than two months ahead of the midterm elections, the Ohio Democratic Party finds itself at war with an unlikely adversary: a labor union made up of its own employees. In bruising negotiations over the past several weeks, party leaders have resisted pay increases and other union demands and hired […]
Migrant parents who failed an asylum screening after being separated from their children at the border would get another chance to seek refuge under a proposed settlement agreement filed Wednesday evening. The proposed agreement — issued jointly by plaintiffs in three related lawsuits and the Trump administration — outlines a […]
The Trump administration will admit no more than 30,000 refugees to the U.S. in the coming year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, down from the current cap of 45,000. Pompeo announced the lowered ceiling during a press conference Monday at the State Department headquarters in Foggy Bottom. Pompeo said […]
A federal court ruled that a Cabinet secretary must provide, for the first time in 19 years, sworn testimony in a civil case. The Cabinet member, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, must answer questions about the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman […]
The Trump administration proposed expanding its pre-election crackdown on immigration by denying green cards to legal immigrants if they have received government assistance. Under the new rule, which the Department of Homeland Security posted online Saturday following an inquiry from POLITICO, immigrants can be denied so-called “lawful permanent residency” if they’ve received […]
President Donald Trump’s refugee plan for the coming fiscal year would nearly halve the number of refugees from the Middle East and Africa, according to a report to Congress obtained by POLITICO. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the administration intends to set the refugee ceiling at 30,000 in fiscal […]
