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27 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Labor unions/House Dems turn up their fight against Trump move to revoke civil service protections for certain fed workers intended to limit political influence. This might be posturing by both sides. Regardless, war is escalating. Lawsuit by labor union: int.nyt.com/data/documentt…
House Dems intro legislation (which will not pass into law, never will happen in this Congress) to show they oppose the change connolly.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
Republican chair of a federal advisory panel also has resigned in protest.
Here again is story on the fight from last week nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/…
Not going to write another daily story on this. So these tweets are your update for the day.

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28 Oct
WSJ: Trump tariffs on steel haven’t produced the steelmaking job growth he boasted about. Instead they hurt U.S. manufacturers, including in automotive and appliance sectors. wsj.com/articles/tarif…
Higher prices made steel more expensive for manufacturers that buy it, leading to the loss of about 75,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs, according to a study released late last year by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
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27 Oct
24 state attorneys general, in addition to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and city agencies in New York and Chicago, call on Trump Labor Depart to stop rule that would redefine if millions of private sector workers are contractors or employees, i.e. Uber ag.ny.gov/sites/default/…
See more on this from story earlier this month nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/…
And this story by @noamscheiber nytimes.com/2020/09/22/bus…
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26 Oct
The head of a federal panel that advises the White House on compensation issues resigned on Monday to protest President Trump’s new executive order that could wipe out employment protections for tens of thousands of federal workers. nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…
SHOW ME THE DOCUMENT: Here is the resignation letter
"The Executive Order is nothing more than a smokescreen for what is clearly an attempt to require the political loyalty of those who advise the President...I have concluded that as a matter of conscience, I can no longer serve him or his Administration. "
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26 Oct
Death of a giant from the modern American coal industry, whose company Murray Energy went bankrupt. He had just recently announced his retirement.
Some of the NYT pieces on Bob Murray... A Coal Baron Funded Climate Denial as His Company Spiraled Into Bankruptcy @LFFriedman nytimes.com/2019/12/17/cli…
How a Coal Baron’s Wish List Became President Trump’s To-Do List @LFFriedman nytimes.com/2018/01/09/cli…
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24 Oct
Thread: I spent many hours talking to the authors of the key federal document from 2007 that explains why the United States went into lockdown as the pandemic spread early this year--and why schools were closed. centerforhealthsecurity.org/cbn/2007/cbnre…
Their research focused on the need for so-called non pharmaceutical interventions when a pandemic hit, and there were no known/proven vaccines or treatments.
I wrote a story early this year about the little-known federal employees who crafted this policy--and how their actions likely helped save countless lives this year @apoorva_nyc nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/…
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16 Oct
JUST POSTED: Facing the prospect that President Trump could lose his re-election bid, his cabinet is scrambling to enact regulatory changes affecting millions of Americans in a blitz so rushed it may leave some changes vulnerable to court challenges nytimes.com/2020/10/16/us/…
Let's review a few of the rules changes being pushed through. It that touches almost every person in the United States. First off, a fundamentally new way to define "independent contractor," which now covers abt 19 million people in the US.
For millions and millions, this could impact whether they are "employees" or "contractors" and the work benefits and protections they get. Yet Labor Depart admits its not sure how this will change the workplace. And it is only offering folks 30 days to comment.
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