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Jul 4 2025
10:30 am
The U.S. Labor Department announced plans this week to slash more than 60 regulations — including eliminating overtime and minimum wage protections for home health care workers and union organizing rights for migrant farmworkers.
The effort to deregulate the federal agency that governs workers’ rights and protections aims to deliver on President Donald Trump’s promise to “restore American prosperity,” the agency said.
Say what?!?! Worker bees must unite!
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