Alt U.S. Department of Labor

Not new information but staggering when you see it all in one place- @democracyforward.org has compiled all of the impacts of this administration's cuts to the federal civil service. The section on harms to workers was written by a DOL employee fired by DOGE: democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Link to press release at www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 2/2

Even after the Trump wage cut rule for farm workers was found to be illegal, the Trump administration has dragged its feet as the illegal wage cut rule remains in effect.  We are grateful that a hard deadline has now been set for the end of these illegal wage cuts. 1/2

Some red-hot PPI numbers this morning, not good news for how energy prices might bleed into broader inflation pressures www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Retail gasoline prices rose 9.1 percent in September alone, and are up 34.2 percent over the past year. Fuel oil prices are up a whopping 74.2 percent from a year ago.

It isn't just energy, though. "Supercore" prices -- core services excluding housing -- rose 0.4 percent in September, following another hot print in August. Over the past three months, supercore prices have risen at an annual rate of 4.6 percent.

Average hourly earnings, adjusted for inflation, fell 0.5 percent in September and are now back to where they were in January, 2025. That means that Americans, on average, have experienced zero real wage growth since Trump returned to office.

The attacks on telework and people with disabilities continue. Annual recertifications of accommodations add so much work for already-stretched thin staff who are dramatically behind on reviewing new requests & employees dealing with medical conditions who already went through a rigorous process.

“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.

Shot. Chaser.

We're *shocked* by this new GAO report on child labor violations and what the Labor Department should do better. 🙄 "Since January 2025, DOL’s collaboration with federal agencies on activities to prevent and detect child labor violations has largely diminished." files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-...

Following a 47–41 party line vote, Keith Sonderling will take the job on a permanent basis. Dems aren’t wild about his tepid response to AI concerns or the broader “anti-worker” agenda he represents. trib.al/qwZpdsC

basically this

"Historically, immigration officers counted only cash benefits, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or Supplemental Security Income from Social Security, in their evaluations." Now? There's no specification about which programs to consider. SNAP, Medicaid, school meals, etc.

Keith Sonderling has changed drastically since he was EEOC commissioner in the Biden admin. It's hard to believe that he's the same person I met a four years ago, who expressed ethical concerns with AI www.hr-brew.com/stories/2022...

Jesse discusses Trump's acting Labor Secretary, Keith Sonderling defending the Trump regime's position on AI & data centers. Keith defended Trump while attacking & mocking Debbie Dingell, telling viewers to see Trump's post where Trump himself mocked her & her dead husband. youtu.be/jQZBFHX5Lyg?...

When a workplace accommodation takes months to process, the delay can become a workplace problem of its own. Now 40 House lawmakers want answers from the Labor Department. Jory Heckman gets into what’s behind the backlog. buff.ly/BquMSnS

CLASS WAR NOW www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/capital-is...

Work till you die is a Republican position.

⚠️ "Agencies spent $9.5 billion on salary costs for this leave in 2025, a sixfold increase from 2023. Most of this growth came from the deferred resignation program." ⚠️ $9.5 BILLION in taxpayer dollars spent on admin leave because of DOGE forcing feds out. Their fuckery has cost our country dearly.

I remain disturbed that DOGE politicals got access to that, and more should be done to ensure the data is used solely by OIG for fraud prevention.

The final DOL rule on UI data disclosure is out. Topline for me: "State UC agencies are largely already disclosing the information that this final rule codifies to the Department and DOL-OIG, minimizing any new costs." Seems like no new data disclosure.

Among the allegations were claims that the Trump Cabinet member had an affair with a bodyguard, drank on the job, and took her subordinates to a strip club during a work trip.

A Cabinet officer appointed by President Trump maintained an “inappropriately close and unprofessional relationship” with a member of her security detail, used government funds for personal travel and regularly drank on the job, a federal watchdog found.

"During a personal trip to Oregon, the report said, Ms. Chavez-DeRemer asked her driver to take her and the agent to a strip club. She also had the driver go inside with them and asked him to drop money from her purse onto a partially naked performer." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

Insane stuff in the inspector general report on Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the Trump/Sean O’Brien pick for labor secretary. Truly demented behavior!

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This is the most important measure of the class war against workers over the last few decades. At the height of union strength, right after World War II, the labor share was 66% of economic output. Now that has dropped to barely half- and it's plummeting under Trump.

There's a reason labor history isn't taught. Knowledge is power. Brush up on your labor history and tell your friends, too.

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

This Administration came hard after our entertainment unions. They intend to Union-bust across the board. If they succeed, they will exploit your labor and your time. UNIONS MATTER.

WHOA. Promising green cards and welfare benefits to Chinese investors? This revelation could derail Keith Sonderling's confirmation as Labor Secretary. @juddlegum.bsky.social @popular.info

A very small preliminary benchmark revision meaning the payroll survey did a pretty amazing job estimating job growth last year. Since the pattern for QCEW revisions is that they are revised up this may convert to a small positive revision in Feb.

This year's annual "benchmark" revisions will reduce estimated employment by just 79,000 jobs, per preliminary data from @BLS_gov. That's an encouraging sign after two years of unusually large downward revisions. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b... #EconSky

Employees who sought disability accommodations at the Labor Department are being told their sensitive information was sent to a personal email account. The department says it’s still assessing the scope of what happened. Jory Heckman has the details: buff.ly/LwPj8Jn

More reasons to join a union.

Extremely my jam:

This is a massive win for thousands of young people across the country who want the opportunity to get a good job. Thank you @splcenter.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social & all the others who stood up to this administration's cruelty toward the working class and fought to keep Job Corps centers open.

Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick bullshitted their way through this event, taking credit for bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. Toyota officials made it clear afterward the plant expansion had *absolutely nothing* to do with Trump's tariffs.

So much for the World Cup hiring bump people were expecting. The leisure and hospitality sector wound up *cutting* more than 80,000 jobs in June and July combined.

Hourly earnings were basically flat in July. Wage growth continues to slow on a year-over-year and three-month basis. Not good news for workers at a time when inflation is proving stubborn.

Employers cut jobs in July, and job growth was revised down for May and June. Net result is that the pop in hiring that we saw earlier this year now seems to have largely evaporated. We've now averaged just +20,000 jobs/month over the past three months. #NumbersDay