- Voters support the #ForThePeopleAct by a 32-point margin
- Voters support the #PROAct by a 16-point margin
- Support for these bills *increase* as voters learn more about the policy specifics perfectunion.us/new-poll-major…
The PRO Act would overhaul existing labor law and expand workers’ rights to form a union, so that more workers could collectively bargain for better wages and working conditions.
After hearing a brief summary of the bill, likely voters supported it 53% to 37%.
We then asked likely voters about 13 labor reforms included in the PRO Act. Pluralities supported 12 of the 13.
By a ~40-point margin, voters backed provisions to reinstate illegally fired workers, block immigration status discrimination, & prevent worker misclassification.
Support for the #PROAct jumped after voters learned about its specific provisions.
The margin-of-support from likely voters increased from 16% to 29%.
We also asked voters about the For the People Act, a landmark voting rights bill that was also passed by the House of Representatives.
When first asked about the bill, 59% of likely voters supported #HR1 and just 27% opposed it.
We asked about 13 provisions of the #ForThePeopleAct. All 13 won plurality support & 11 had majority support.
The most popular elements:
- voting machine paper trails (60-pt margin of support)
- dark money groups must reveal donors (55-pt)
- Election Day federal holiday (45-pt)
Support for the For the People Act climbed considerably once voters learned about its specific provisions.
The margin of support from independent and third party voters jumped nearly 10 points—from 30 to 38.
Overall opposition from Republicans halved, from 13 points to
just 5.
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More federal child labor violations were reported in 2025 than in any year since 2008’s Great Recession. Between 2020 and 2024, the rate of child deaths in the workplace almost doubled.
Amid these violations, 13 states introduced bills to chip away at child labor laws. And four states are enacting them.
Under House Bill 1302, Indiana eliminated its youth employment documentation system, effectively killing any paper trail that could convict a business on child labor violations.
Four years earlier, Indiana had also removed mandated rest breaks for minors.
In April, Washington extended work hours for minors in work-based learning programs from 4 hours a day or 20 hours a week to 8 hours a day or 48 hours a week. This will go into effect July 2026.
Work-based learning includes internships, job shadowing, or work experience in fields like agriculture, construction, healthcare, manufacturing, and food service. app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?bi…
Virginia’s Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger started her term with some wins for working people. She signed a paid sick leave law, enshrined the right to contraception, fought for voting rights and more.
But now,Spanberger is vetoing numerous bills passed by the Democratic legislature that would improve the lives of working people across Virginia.
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Early in her tenure Spanberger made historic progress by delivering on her promises to make Virginia more affordable. During her first few months, she signed laws that:
-Allowed workers to accumulate 1 hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked for a maximum of 5 days (or 40 hours) annually
-Secured Virginians’ right to contraception
-Capped out-of-pocket costs for a 30-day supply of insulin at $35
-Raised Virginia’s minimum wage to $15/hr
But when it came to unions, protecting immigrants, and more, Spanberger pivoted and dropped the ball.
The biggest blow has been Spanberger’s veto of a bill that would have amended a Jim-Crow-era ban and expanded collective bargaining rights for the state’s 500,000 public sector workers.
Spanberger could have narrowed one of the nation’s largest public-sector pay gaps.
The U.S. has lost over 150,000 farms over the past five years due to consolidation, exorbitant production costs, and legislative efforts. Farmers are the primary target, but the impacts will trickle down to affect supermarkets and the produce on your dinner table.
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For the third year straight, production costs skyrocketed, and 315 farms filed for Chapter 12 bankruptcies.
The Midwest and Southeast represented more than ⅔ of bankruptcy cases. Filings shot up around 70% compared to the previous year.
BREAKING: 3,800 workers at Colorado’s JBS USA, the world’s largest meatpacker, are on strike.
This is the largest meatpacking strike in 40 years.
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99% of workers in the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 agreed to strike over unfair working practices and poor conditions.
“This strike authorization is the direct result of JBS’s unlawful and bad-faith conduct,” said Kim Cordova, President of UFCW Local 7. Over the course of bargaining for a new contract, the union has filed multiple Unfair Labor Practice charges against JBS.”
In addition to dragging out pay negotiations, JBS has yet to address allegations of wage theft. Cordova said the plant charged workers for any replacements of personal protective equipment, gear required for employees to own, and costs upward of $1,100.
Private equity and the military-industrial complex are chomping at the bit to make money from Trump’s war in Iran.
This is how the super-rich expect to profit. Thread:
In an analysis obtained by @LeverNews, Pitchbook said the most important part of this conflict isn’t politics, it’s all about finding opportunities in weapons consumption, inventory depth, and industrial capacity.
A prolonged conflict means the U.S. will either supplement or extend existing military contracts. That means more money for contractors, their supplies, and their investors. documentcloud.org/documents/2780…
@LeverNews The document provides a table detailing which military-grade weapons used in Iran have certain “investable attributes.”
The systems that provide the weapons, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and RTX—defense companies whose stocks saw incredible growth since Trump attacked Iran.
People across the country have put public pressure on warehouse owners to halt the sale of their facilities to ICE – and, in multiple states, it's working.
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OBBB gave the ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative $38 billion to meet private prison investor demands to increase capacity. The Department of Homeland Security identified 24 warehouses for potential sale and detention conversions.
Majestic Realty Co. was contacted about “potential sale” of its Hutchins, Texas, warehouse that could hold up to 10,000 detainees. Hutchins has a population of 6,000.
Majestic Realty Co. says it “has not and will not enter into any agreement for the purchase or lease of any building to the Department of Homeland Security for use as a detention facility."