Labor Scorecard true 0% 33 Checks mostly-true 0% 58 Checks Half True 0% 39 Checks mostly-false 0% 60 Checks false 0% 65 Checks Pants on Fire 0% 22 Checks For more details, see the Principles of PolitiFact All Fact-checks for Labor X posts stated on September 19, 2025 in 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. October 2, 2025 Facebook posts stated on February 18, 2025 in a post on Facebook: Former President Joe Biden “fired” 14,000 Keystone XL pipeline workers “on day one” of his administration. February 26, 2025 Bernie Sanders stated on January 2, 2025 in a statement to the media: H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.” By Amy Sherman • January 9, 2025 Tim Walz stated on August 14, 2024 in a speech in California: Former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.” By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2024 Threads posts stated on July 7, 2024 in a Threads post: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” July 12, 2024 Tony Evers stated on January 23, 2024 in 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.” By Sophia Voight • February 2, 2024 Instagram posts stated on November 12, 2023 in an Instagram post: Quotes House Speaker Mike Johnson as saying, “Every woman has a duty to birth at least one able-bodied worker.” By Grace Abels • November 13, 2023 Alex Mooney stated on August 21, 2023 in a campaign website: Jim Justice "opposes the Right to Work” By Madison Ely • October 24, 2023 Bernie Sanders stated on November 29, 2022 in 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." December 8, 2022 Kathy Hochul stated on October 25, 2022 in a debate: The state is absorbing the cost of overtime pay for farmworkers, and farm owners do not have to pay any more. By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 5, 2022 Lori Lightfoot stated on December 31, 2021 in a year-end press release.: "Chicago maintained the lowest unemployment rate through most of 2021 of any large American city." By Analisa Trofimuk • January 31, 2022 Facebook posts stated on December 19, 2021 in 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'?" By Bill McCarthy • December 21, 2021 Instagram posts stated on October 27, 2021 in 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. By Gabrielle Settles • November 5, 2021 Facebook posts stated on June 18, 2020 in a Facebook post: “OSHA says masks don't work” to reduce COVID-19 transmission “and violate OSHA oxygen levels.” June 25, 2020 Donald Trump stated on January 28, 2020 in comments at a campaign rally: "Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.” By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020 JB Pritzker stated on January 29, 2020 in 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.” By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 2, 2020 Bernie Sanders stated on January 14, 2020 in 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." By Rylee Wilson • January 22, 2020 Lizzie Pannill Fletcher stated on November 20, 2019 in a tweet: "In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation." By Madlin Mekelburg • November 27, 2019 Facebook posts stated on November 6, 2019 in 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." By Samantha Putterman • November 22, 2019 Tony Evers stated on January 3, 2019 in news reports: On Evers' support for a $15 minimum wage By D.L. Davis • February 14, 2019 Load More Latest Articles Yes, Bill Clinton offered mass federal employee buyouts. Here’s why Trump’s program is different. By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2025 Fact-checking President Joe Biden’s NATO press conference By Maria Ramirez Uribe • July 12, 2024 Fact-checking the first McAuliffe-Youngkin debate By Warren Fiske • September 17, 2021 Latest promises about Labor Donald Trump Impose a hiring freeze on federal employees No movement on Trump promise to reduce federal workforce with federal hiring freeze since April 2017 | July 15, 2020 Barack Obama Walk with picketers when collective bargaining rights are threatened Obama never marched with union picketers | December 14, 2016 Barack Obama Work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers Still no sign of action | June 12, 2012 Barack Obama Promote lifelong retraining Mixed record for implementing a five-part promise | November 27, 2012 Barack Obama Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Efforts to reverse Supreme Court ruling have fallen by wayside | February 10, 2012 Barack Obama Launch educational initiative for employers on tax benefits of hiring employees with disabilities Numbers of individuals certified has increased | September 29, 2011 Barack Obama Reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act Family and Medical Leave Act expansion a no-go in Congress | September 30, 2011 Barack Obama Provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave Congress isn’t going for family leave funding | October 25, 2011 Barack Obama Require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year No indication that Congress will pass the Healthy Families Act | September 30, 2011 Barack Obama Reinstate order to hire 100,000 more federal employees with disabilities within five years. Obama reinstates executive order on disability hiring | July 30, 2010 Barack Obama Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act Goals, timetables on the way | June 20, 2012 Barack Obama Create a best practices list for private businesses in accommodating workers with disabilities White House has delivered information to the federal and private sectors on hiring | September 29, 2011 Latest promises about Labor
Donald Trump Impose a hiring freeze on federal employees No movement on Trump promise to reduce federal workforce with federal hiring freeze since April 2017 | July 15, 2020
Barack Obama Walk with picketers when collective bargaining rights are threatened Obama never marched with union picketers | December 14, 2016
Barack Obama Work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers Still no sign of action | June 12, 2012
Barack Obama Promote lifelong retraining Mixed record for implementing a five-part promise | November 27, 2012
Barack Obama Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Efforts to reverse Supreme Court ruling have fallen by wayside | February 10, 2012
Barack Obama Launch educational initiative for employers on tax benefits of hiring employees with disabilities Numbers of individuals certified has increased | September 29, 2011
Barack Obama Reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act Family and Medical Leave Act expansion a no-go in Congress | September 30, 2011
Barack Obama Provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave Congress isn’t going for family leave funding | October 25, 2011
Barack Obama Require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year No indication that Congress will pass the Healthy Families Act | September 30, 2011
Barack Obama Reinstate order to hire 100,000 more federal employees with disabilities within five years. Obama reinstates executive order on disability hiring | July 30, 2010
Barack Obama Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act Goals, timetables on the way | June 20, 2012
Barack Obama Create a best practices list for private businesses in accommodating workers with disabilities White House has delivered information to the federal and private sectors on hiring | September 29, 2011
