Latest Fact-Checks In Labor

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X posts
X posts
stated on September 19, 2025 an X post
Thirty percent of U.S. medical residents are international medical graduates, and 10,000 of 43,000 residency spots are filled by H-1B visa holders.
Half-True
By Maria Briceño • October 2, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 18, 2025 a post on Facebook
Former President Joe Biden “fired” 14,000 Keystone XL pipeline workers “​​on day one” of his administration.
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • February 26, 2025
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 2, 2025 a statement to the media
H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2025
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on August 14, 2024 a speech in California
Former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on July 7, 2024 a Threads post
"Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.”
False
July 12, 2024
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 23, 2024 Speech
“In April last year, our state unemployment rate hit a record low of 2.4%. Last year, Wisconsin had an all-time lowest number of unemployed workers ever in modern history.”
True
By Sophia Voight • February 2, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on November 12, 2023 an Instagram post
Quotes House Speaker Mike Johnson as saying, “Every woman has a duty to birth at least one able-bodied worker.”
False
By Grace Abels • November 13, 2023
Alex Mooney
Alex Mooney
stated on August 21, 2023 a campaign website
Jim Justice "opposes the Right to Work”
Mostly False
By Madison Ely • October 24, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 29, 2022 an interview
In the first three quarters of 2022, “the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends” and CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave."
Mostly True
December 8, 2022
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on October 25, 2022 a debate
The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more.
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 5, 2022
Lori Lightfoot
Lori Lightfoot
stated on December 31, 2021 a year-end press release.
"Chicago maintained the lowest unemployment rate through most of 2021 of any large American city."
False
By Analisa Trofimuk • January 31, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 19, 2021 a Facebook post
Says Kellogg’s tweeted, “Oh, so you think it's cool when workers strike jobs? Now replace 'jobs' with 'women.' Still think it's 'cool'?"
False
By Bill McCarthy • December 21, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 27, 2021 an Instagram post
A video shows “your packages were rerouted and have arrived in the port of Miami” as a result of Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Mostly False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 5, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 18, 2020 a Facebook post
“OSHA says masks don't work” to reduce COVID-19 transmission “and violate OSHA oxygen levels.”
False
June 25, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 comments at a campaign rally
"Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on January 29, 2020 a speech
“Over the past year, Illinois has reduced its unemployment rate more than all of the top 20 most populated states in the nation — and more than our Midwestern peers.”
Mostly True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 2, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 14, 2020 comments at a presidential debate
"The Machinists Union does not (support the USMCA trade deal). And every environmental organization in this country (also) opposes it."
Mostly True
By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
stated on November 20, 2019 a tweet
"In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • November 27, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 6, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Nike pays factory workers, 80% of whom are women, "20 cents an hour" and has them work "70 to 80 hours a week."  
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 22, 2019
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on January 3, 2019 news reports
On Evers' support for a $15 minimum wage
No Flip
By D.L. Davis • February 14, 2019
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