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Summary
Since returning to office, Trump has taken steps that labor experts say undermine US worker protections.
He has fired key officials—including the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)’s acting chair and EEOC commissioners—leaving agencies without the quorum needed to enforce labor laws.
Critics argue these actions, which include targeting federal employees and dismantling union support, serve to benefit billionaire allies like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, create a hostile work environment, and violate due process.
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They literally told us they were going to make huge cuts to the government in order to benefit corporations, and that regular people were going to have to take the hit to fund this. And then these mental deficients voted for him.
🤷🤷♂️🤷🤷♂️🤷🤷♂️
racism and hate are powerful tools. the maga nuts don’t care, ‘they’ are getting hurt, too. that’s all that matters.
Have we learned nothing?
never believe nazi lies about the economy. they are purposefully deceitful. they don’t have a cohesive strategy. their only aim is unfathomable amounts of killing
This is not surprising to anyone who was actually paying attention…or getting force fed propaganda from Murdoch’s sources.
https://apnews.com/article/labor-union-auto-workers-trump-strike-dfcb805fd4e749b13aaf827e1463da73
. Despite Trump’s history of success in courting blue-collar workers in previous elections, union leaders say their members would do well to believe their own eyes.
“Just look who Trump put in the courts,” said Dave Green, the UAW regional director for Ohio and Indiana. “Look at his record with the labor relations board. He did nothing to support organized labor except lip service.”
The National Labor Relations Board, which enforces the country’s labor laws and oversees union elections, came under Republican control during the Trump administration for the first time since 2007. The board reversed several key Obama-era rulings that made it easier for small unions to organize, strengthened the bargaining rights of franchise workers and provided protection against anti-union measures for employees.
In 2017, the Trump-era board reversed a decision holding employers responsible for labor violations by subcontractors or franchisees. In 2019, the board gave a boost to companies that use contract labor, such as Lyft and Uber, by emphasizing “entrepreneurial opportunity” in determining a worker’s employment status, making organizing harder.
Mark McManus, president of the plumbers and pipefitters union, said in a statement last week that Trump “tried to gut” the labor relations board under his administration “to undo the safeguards that protect working families.” Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber told The Associated Press in an emailed statement that the board was stacked with “anti-worker appointees who trampled on collective bargaining rights.”
The union leaders also point to unfavorable U.S. Supreme Court rulings under a conservative majority that grew during Trump’s term. The nation’s high court has dealt a number of blows to unions, most recently ruling against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet cement, allowing a civil suit against them to go forward.
In 2018, the court’s conservative majority overturned a decades-old pro-union decision involving fees paid by government workers. The justices in 2021 rejected a California regulation giving unions access to farm property so they could organize workers.
“If you’re appointing conservatives to the court, you’re often appointing people who relate to the preference for business or property owners or shareholders, more than the preference of stakeholders like workers,” said Peter Berg, a professor of labor relations at Michigan State University.
As president, Trump largely sat on the sidelines during a 40-day walkout at a General Motors plant in 2019.
Still, the Trump campaign vigorously defended his record as pro-worker.
“President Trump has always been on the side of American workers,” his campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
Trump has used a similar tactic in an effort to separate workers from a UAW leadership that endorsed Democrat Joe Biden in 2020 and that has attacked Trump since. In a recent campaign video addressed to autoworkers, Trump encouraged them not to pay union dues and claimed union leaders have “got some deals going for themselves.” Trump also claimed he would raise their wages and protect their jobs.
https://teamster.org/2024/09/teamsters-release-presidential-endorsement-polling-data/
In the past week, following the Democratic National Convention and recent Presidential debate, the Teamsters commissioned independent polling firm Lake Research Partners to conduct the union’s final national survey. In the poll ending Sept. 15, Teamsters selected Trump by 58 percent for endorsement over 31 percent for Harris.
I suppose that’s democracy for you.
