Michael Sainato

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Labor Reporter at @TheGuardian.com

Tim Walz responding to Nick Shirley asking about a conspiracy theory that Melissa Hortman's murder was related to Tim Walz
Will Ferrell in Zoolander advocating for child labor
Dennis Reynolds telling Mac his hair looks small when asked to say something nice for once in his life
Benny Johnson reposting a blatantly racist post about Muslims
Benny Johnson reposting a blatantly racist post about Muslims
‘Dagger in heart’: Rebecca Slaughter on how her supreme court case validated Trump’s purge to civil service
Statement from UAW President Shawn Fain Detroit, MI - Shawn Fain issues the following statement. "I’ve remained silent on the political infighting in our union over the past two years because it only distracts from our mission as a union and as a movement. But the stakes are too high, and the membership deserves to know the truth. Let’s be clear about what’s going on here: Rich Boyer has fed the monitor false allegations about me and is now trying to weaponize these bogus allegations to steal the upcoming UAW election. He knows he can’t win a fair fight because he has no real platform to run on. I’m done being silent. Neil Barofsky has a political grudge against me because the UAW took an anti-war stance about what was happening in Gaza. I’ve retained a law firm to fight against the Monitor’s trumped-up claims against me. What the Monitor is doing is wrong, it’s unfair to the UAW and to you as members, and my lawyers are looking at any and all legal options I can pursue to make it stop. We are going to fight back hard. The truth when it comes to Boyer is that I didn’t want him running the Stellantis Department because he wasn’t doing a good job for our members. I wouldn’t let him hire family members into UAW positions, and I wouldn’t stand by while he bargained concessions with Stellantis and failed to enforce our contract. Boyer is bad for our union and I’m not going to let him use the Monitor’s bogus investigation so he can try to fail upwards into a bigger title. I’ve stayed quiet about this because I don’t believe it helps our union to have these fights out in public. But make no mistake: our contracts, our jobs, and our union are at stake here. Our members are either going to see through these lies and the nonsense, or let Boyer and Barofsky destroy our union and weaken us at the bargaining table. We’ve accomplished more in the past 3 years and 3 months than in the previous decades. This is what happens when you go against corporate America and their al…
Ohio Teamsters endorse Max Miller over an Iron worker
Mike Crispi posting a weird video of himself complaining about Little Italy being left off of a map
- Today, Senate Majority PAC spokesperson Lauren French released the following statement: “We believe the women who have come forward about Graham Platner, and we stand with the survivors who have shared their experiences at real personal cost. These are serious claims from multiple women, and they raise real questions about Graham Platner's fitness for office. Having lost the trust of the people of Maine, Platner should withdraw from this Senate race. “As Democrats, we have an obligation to run candidates whose moral character matches the values we stand for. Maine deserves a nominee who can defeat Susan Collins and serve with honor and dignity, and survivors deserve leaders who take their accounts seriously. “Senate Majority PAC is redirecting resources away from the Maine Senate race in light of the latest allegations against Graham Platner. We continue to believe this seat is winnable if Platner is not on the ballot, but we cannot strategically continue to invest here when there is an expansive battleground map where these resources can help win a Democratic majority.”
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Darializa Avila Chevalier defeats incumbent in primary
Hi-C Ecto Cooler drink
Trump at the Libertarian Convention in 2024
Description The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Administration works to nourish those in need through financially sound programs that promote health and work, as well as champion the productivity of American agriculture. Consistent with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ guiding principle to take swift action to minimize instances of fraud, waste, and program abuse in nutrition programs, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Fraud Framework Implementation Grant Program supports State agency efforts to improve and expand recipient fraud prevention, detection, and investigation efforts using the procedures, ideas, and practices outlined in the SNAP Fraud Framework. The SNAP Fraud Framework is designed to support State agencies as they develop new efforts or improve existing ones to prevent, detect, and investigate recipient fraud.
NLRB Denies Amazon Whole Foods Request to Overturn Historic Philadelphia Union Election Philadelphia, PA — The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has denied Amazon Whole Foods’ request for review of the Regional Director’s decision certifying the January 27, 2025 union election at the company’s Center City Philadelphia store. In May 2026, the NLRB Regional Director certified the results of the historic union election. Amazon Whole Foods subsequently filed a request for review with the Board in an effort to overturn the certification decision. Today, the NLRB denied the company’s request for review, allowing the certification to stand. The Board’s refusal to review the Regional Director’s decision confirms what workers and UFCW Local 1776 have known from the beginning: the election was free, fair, and conducted lawfully. “From the start, Whole Foods told their workers and the public that they would respect the outcome of the vote,” said Wendell Young IV, UFCW 1776 President. “Instead, the company has spent months delaying the process and retaliating against known union supporters. With this ruling, there could not be a clearer obligation to bargain. Enough is enough. It is time for Amazon Whole Foods to do the right thing, respect the workers’ decision, and come to the bargaining table.”
Elon Musk stating "no more white guilt"
Musk being antisemitic
Musk posting “100” in quote tweeting a social media post that claimed “if white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered” and adding “white solidarity is the only way to survive.”
Rollins lying about SNAP
Dr Oz magic pill scam
Markwayne Mullin, Lori Chavez Deremer, and Teamsters President Sean O'Brien in February 2025 making a video appearance to tout a coalition/friendship
Congressman Andy Ogles being a bigot
In April, the Arizona Department of Economic Security reported that just over 235,000 families received SNAP benefits. That marks a steep drop from last July, when over 455,000 families received the benefits — a decline of nearly 50%. India Gibson, a single mom, says she has gone months without SNAP benefits despite submitting applications, calling the DES office and waiting. “I have sent in numerous amounts of paperwork since August,” Gibson said. “I want to say my confidence is pretty low, you know? And it gets lower every day, you get discouraged that you called this line and you don’t know what to do.”
Trump's PR team claiming CNN journalists are falling asleep because they were looking down or appeared to have their eyes closed on air
Trump's PR team claiming CNN journalists are falling asleep because they were looking down or appeared to have their eyes closed on air
Trump's PR team claiming CNN journalists are falling asleep because they were looking down or appeared to have their eyes closed on air
An NLRB election will be held on June 18; if workers vote “yes,” they would join UNITE HERE Local 19 alongside other Pebble Beach Resort employees Pebble Beach – More than 250 caddies at Pebble Beach Golf Links, the most famous golf course in the country, are organizing a union. It is a first for caddies in the modern era. Caddies across Pebble Beach Company’s golf courses – Pebble Beach Golf Links, Spyglass Hill Golf Course, The Links at Spanish Bay, and Del Monte Golf Course – are fighting to maintain their autonomy and protect their livelihoods. They are demanding respect as professionals who shape the golfer experience at some of the most celebrated, and most expensive, public golf courses in the world. “When golfers come to Pebble Beach, we are the face of the resort. Whether I’m with a tech billionaire or a teacher from Iowa who saved up for years for the experience of playing here, my job is building relationships and facilitating memories. You can’t corporatize that,” said Jack Hoenes, a CaddieMasters caddie who has been at Pebble Beach for 24 years. “These changes to our jobs are happening because of greed at the top and a gross underestimation of the value of caddies. We organized to protect our careers.” Caddies say they are part of more than a century of tradition at Pebble Beach – one they felt changed overnight when CaddieMaster became their employer on May 1. For decades, caddies had elected a board to directly discuss the terms of their pay and schedule; that structure was eliminated under CaddieMaster. Caddies were moved to hourly pay, starting as low as minimum wage, and additional hours were added onto the workday. Meanwhile, costs for golfers at Pebble Beach have increased to a $695 green fee, $175 and $250 for single bag and double bag caddie fees, respectively.
Today, the American Federation of Government Employees National Veterans Affairs Council (AFGE/NVAC), the largest union representing more than 320,000 employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, celebrates the unanimous decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit to uphold the reinstatement of the largest collective bargaining agreement of VA employees. The VA filed a motion for an emergency stay with the First Circuit following a March 13 preliminary injunction that ordered the VA to reinstate AFGE/NVAC’s master collective bargaining agreement pending resolution of a lawsuit filed by AFGE/NVAC challenging its retaliatory termination by VA Secretary Doug Collins on August 6, 2025. The VA argued that it was likely to prevail on the merits of AFGE/NVAC’s constitutional and statutory claims, and further, that it would suffer “irreparable harm” by having to comply with the union contract while its appeal was adjudicated by the First Circuit.
Big lebowski saying "friends like these huh Gary"
Seattle jobs in food service
Town hall at UAW 2B HQ in Maumee, Ohio
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Congresswoman Deborah Dingell at UAW Local 600 hall
Trump's agriculture secretary making fraud claims about SNAP
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Scene from Robin Hood Men im Tights where little john claims he is drowning in a puddle
Kash Patel chugging a beer alone in the US Hockey locker room in Milan, Italy
Screenshot of a gig nursing app offering workers the ability to bid the lowest wage in order to win a gig
Trump posting himself with a depiction of Jesus
White House claiming No Tax On Tips savings
Trump Press Secretary posting a half eaten McDonald's burger
Bernie Sanders at Union Now rally at Terminal 5 in Manhattan
Bernie Union Now event in NYC
UFCW LOCAL 7 ANNOUNCES TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH JBS USA FOLLOWING THREE-WEEK UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE Contract Secures Hard-Fought Victories for Nearly 3,800 Workers at Greeley Flagship Plant
Melania Trump's 2002 email to Ghislaine Maxwell
bargaining order from NLRB on Amazon union election at JFK8, which workers won in 2022
Founder of Arist posting on X
JBS WORKERS BEGIN 2 WEEK UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE AGAINST JBS Nearly 3,800 JBS-owned Swift Beef workers in Greeley, Colorado represented by UFCW Local 7 took to the picket lines today protesting unfair negotiating tactics and unlawful reprisals. Greeley, CO – United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members at Greeley’s Swift Beef Company, owned by JBS N.V. began a two week Unfair Labor Practice Strike at 5:30 a.m. on Monday, March 16, 2026. Workers will remain out on the picket lines until JBS comes to the table to negotiate fairly with workers and rights its unlawful union busting. In February, after months of negotiations, workers voted overwhelmingly to authorize an unfair labor practice strike against JBS as a result of the Company’s refusal to negotiate fairly with workers and fix the company’s pattern of wage theft, provide raises to workers that keep pace with the rising cost of living in Colorado, and ensure stable health care costs for workers. Instead of shifting toward fair treatment, the Company has recently doubled down on its illegal tactics by threatening workers with termination if they did not resign from the Union and refuse to strike. These recent actions come on top of a pattern of retaliatory conduct against a member of the bargaining committee and others who have spoken out against the Company. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova, the Union’s chief spokesperson, stated, “For months now, JBS has been insisting on poverty-level wages for workers at the plant, offering less than 2% in average annual wage increases, far below the level of inflation in Colorado, while at the same time putting all the risk of rising healthcare costs on workers. Meanwhile, despite being the world’s largest protein producer, JBS has been stealing from workers’ paychecks to fund the Company’s profits. JBS must do right by these workers and negotiate lawfully. Make no mistake, JBS chose this strike in an effort to lower worker wages nationwide, just a…
Letter from UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova to JBS USA informing the company they are giving notice to cancel the contract extension agreement
Ranking Member Scott on DOL’s Radical Independent Contractor Rule that Robs Workers of Overtime Pay and Fair Wages WASHINGTON – Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03), House Committee on Education and Workforce, released the following statement after the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a proposed rule on the classification of independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). DOL’s rule would narrow its interpretation of who is considered an employee under the FLSA. “Today, the Department of Labor proposed a rule that will make it more difficult for workers who have been misclassified as independent contractors to receive overtime pay, fair wages, and other basic rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. “By codifying the pervasive trend of employers misclassifying their employees as independent contractors, the proposed rule will strip workers of their basic wage and hour protections and leave law-abiding businesses at a competitive disadvantage. Unlike employees, independent contractors do not get essential protections, such as minimum wage, overtime, unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, access to employee healthcare and benefits, pensions, or OSHA protections. “The Economic Policy Institute previously estimated that a similar rule would cost workers more than $3 billion each year. This is a devastating consequence for working families who are already struggling in the Trump-Vance economy and are now dealing with devastating health and food assistance cuts from Republicans’ ‘One Big, Ugly Law.’ Too many people who work hard cannot afford basic expenses to have a good life – like owning a home, taking your family on vacation, or going out to eat every once in a while. This new proposal will put those things even further out of reach.”
Announcement of recommended charges from independent investigative officer to O'Brien ally
Bad and insulting WSJ
Amazon tour survey question