The pushback against Antonio Gracias and Valor Equity Partners from the labor movement continues. Backstory: in May, I wrote this piece for Rolling Stone highlighting Gracias’ and Musk’s dependence on public pension dollars for Musk’s privately held empire of SpaceX and xAi. The AFL-CIO followed it up with this report, which the Prospect reported on here. Then the week before last, I looked at the broader landscape of public pension money financing Trump’s authoritarianism, here. Take a look!
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Wow: Three Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee crossed party lines to vote with Democrats for an amendment to block a Trump executive order stripping federal workers of collective bargaining rights.
A federal judge just “ordered the Trump Administration to provide copies of its plans to fire federal workers for review,” reports the OnLabor blog. The order is part of the case brought by the American Federation of Government Employees, other unions, and nonprofits to challenge Trump’s “reduction in force” executive order to slash the federal workforce.
Phenomenal World has an interview with Ben Fong, associate director of the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University, about the current state of the labor movement and organizing outside of the NLRB.
Politico covers the disputes between Democratic Governors and labor unions in their respective states.