United Steelworkers leaders on Thursday bashed a union letter-writing campaign in support of Nippon Steel’s $14.9 billion takeover of U.S. Steel as “intimidating” and “unlawful” as President Joe Biden is due to decide the deal’s fate.

Union members in the Pittsburgh region were asked to sign a letter to Mr. Biden that states the merger with Japan’s largest steelmaker will “ensure that USW-represented facilities across the organization’s footprint will continue to mine, melt, and make steel in the United States for decades to come.”

Even though the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States continues to review Nippon Steel’s $14.1 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to block the deal even if CFIUS approves it. Reading between the lines of state media, no one is happier than the Chinese Communist Party.

President-elect Trump backs H-1B visas, siding with Elon Musk after the tech billionaire pledged to go to "war" to defend the program and branded GOP opponents "hateful, unrepentant racists."

Why it matters: The MAGA-DOGE civil war that erupted over the last 48 hours has now come to a tipping point, with Trump's new techno-libertarian coalition of billionaires taking full aim at his traditional base.

President-elect Donald Trump appeared to side with technology bosses Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in a row over a visa programme that brings skilled workers to the US.

Trump told the New York Post on Saturday that he "always liked" H-1B visas and hired guest workers under the scheme - even though he's previously been critical of the programme.

He was wading into a debate that has pitted his advisors from the tech world against Republicans who want a harder line on all forms of immigration.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Monday accused e-commerce giant Amazon of manipulating data on worker injuries and ignoring safety concerns. "Amazon's warehouse workers have raised the alarm for years about unsafe working conditions and a corporate culture that prioritizes speed and profit over worker health and safety," the report states.

Amazon (AMZN+1.45% ) manipulates its workplace injury data and rejected recommendations to improve safety conditions for its workers, according to a Senate investigation into labor rules at the U.S.’s largest online retailer. The 160-report from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee is the result of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ investigation into the company’s “abysmal safety record” that he launched last year. The report says Amazon manipulates workplace injury data to make its warehouses appear safer than they actually are by cherry-picking statistics.

A sweeping congressional investigation into worker safety at Amazon found that the nation’s largest online retailer manipulated data on warehouse worker injuries and disregarded internal research on improving safety.

The report was released late Sunday by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension, or HELP, Committee, chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).

A district court’s challenge to the structure of the NLRB could affect not just labor regulations but the administrative state as a whole.