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Friday, March 12, 2021 Biden Signs Sixth COVID-19 Aid Package Into Law. President Joe Biden promised the country an enormous economic rescue plan, and this week he delivered. On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a massive $1.9 trillion aid package that was passed using the arcane budget reconciliation process in Congress. Zero Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate voted in favor of the legislation. We hav...

Demonstrators gather in University Heights to support Amazon workers amid union battle in Alabama Demonstrators gather in University Heights to support Amazon workers amid union battle in Alabama and last updated 2021-03-13 18:40:23-05 UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio — On Saturday, Our Revolution Ohio held a rally to support Amazon workers amid a union battle in Alabama. Thousands of workers at an Amazon campus are deciding whether to form a union, a battle with the potential to pivot collective...

Mary Kearl is a professional freelance writer and marketing consultant. As a freelancer, she enjoys being able to make more money, choose her own hours, and be an active caregiver to her toddler. If the PRO Act in its current form passes in the Senate, Kearl says she could potentially most of her clients and income. Professionally, Ive never been happier since becoming a freelancer. Sure, there are the occasional stresses of chasing down payments and the ongoing uncertainty of not knowing exact...

Will the GOPs culture war gambit blow up in its face? Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter With new stories about "cancel culture" and "woke" outrage breaking every few days, it sometimes seems as if the culture war has swallowed up everything in American politics. Yet its also the case that over the past seven weeks, the Democrats have passed a $1.9 trillion economic relief package and advanced an omnibus bill to protect voting rights and a pro-union bill that ...

As our sister publication Townhall reported, “The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would essentially eliminate freelancers and the gig economy. The bill passed 225 to 206. Five Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the act.’ As we have seen so clearly over the past year, it’s less about the letter before your state, and more about who is putting the feed in your trough; and how much. The PRO Act is a clear “gimme” to...

March 10, 2021 11:07 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—The PRO Act, federal legislation that takes the provisions of California’s AB5 law restricting how companies may hire freelance workers and makes them national, took a major step toward becoming law Tuesday when the United States House passed the bill on a mostly party-line vote, 225-206. Five Republicans voted in favor of the bill, whose full name is Protecting the Right to Organize Act, along with all 220 House Democrats. Identical to AB5, th...

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Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, during his fiery pro-worker speech in Congress on March 9, 2021. | via Twitter I’d been hoping some Democrat would cut loose on Republican union-busters for claiming the GOP is the “working class” party. Rep. Tim Ryan just came through. “Now stop talking about Dr. Seuss and start working with us on behalf of the American workers,” the Ohioan challenged Republicans on the House floor Tuesday. Ryan was sticking up for the PRO Act, which would expand the rights o...

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) voted Tuesday against a motion to block labor unions from encouraging illegal aliens to join labor unions.

(Martin Clarke/Michelle Janikian via AP) It has been a little over a year since I started my fight against California’s AB5: the so-called “Gig Workers” law that was supposed to right the wrongs of misclassification of 1099 Independent Contractors who should have been employees. Authored by San Diego Assemblywoman Lorena S. Gonzalez-Fletcher (D-Chula Vista), and backed by powerful unions such as the AFL-CIO, what this law did was remove a person’s right to choose to work as an Independe...