Weak public K–12 education spending in the U.S. and the rising trend of Republican attacks on public schools threaten our children’s futures. The last decade has seen a flurry of high-quality studies ...

EPI’s Margaret Poydock delivered the following testimony for an informal public hearing on OSHA's Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings proposed rule.  Dear OSHA Panel...

Deportations will eliminate millions of jobs held by immigrant and U.S.-born workers according to research on increased immigration enforcement.

The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer c...

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Dear IAM Federal Sector Members, Much of our federal membership has reported receiving an email titled “What did you do last week?” from a U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) email address, hr@o...

The deferred resignation proposal sent to federal workers is fraught with practical and legal issues that present uncertainty for employees.

Answers to some of the most common questions about federal probationary employment in light of OPM's "Fork in the Road" memo and other changes.

Last night, OPM sent an email to federal employees offering “deferred resignation.” Like many of the administration’s pronouncements, the email was sloppily drafted, making it har…

When President-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on ...

Download this article as a PDF Unions and collective action have long served as a vehicle for ensuring prosperity for working families and creating a more equal economy. Despite these critical functio...

State policymakers who want to preserve protections for US workers should move quickly to enact recent federal worker wins at the state level.