LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Top Stories: NY fires 2,000 striking prison guards; Department of Education lays off nearly 50%; Nestle Purina workers on strike; A primer on Humphrey's Executor & dozens more articles...
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Democrat-run New York fires more than 2,000 striking prison guards for refusing to return to work
New York officials fired more than 2,000 prison guards on Monday for not returning to work after a weekslong strike.
Education Department lays off nearly half its staff
The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday announced the cuts, impacting more than 1,300 of its employees. Included in the cutting of staff are nearly 600 employees who accepted the voluntary resignation offer and retirement over the last seven weeks, the agency said. The Education Department’s staff will now sit at roughly half of its previous 4,100.
Nestlé Purina workers in Pennsylvania on strike
On March 2, 459 workers at a Nestlé Purina plant in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania went on strike at the pet food company after voting to authorize a strike over wages and benefits.
Humphrey’s Executor: What is the 90-year-old precedent Trump wants overturned?
A nearly century-old Supreme Court ruling is at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between President Donald Trump and his political opponents that could redefine the power of the presidency.
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