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New Trump admin to deliver 'body blow' to unions after courting union workers: report
More horrible things to happen come Jan 20!!
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New Trump admin to deliver 'body blow' to unions after courting union workers: report
Brad Reed
November 8, 2024 1:57PM ET
President-elect Donald Trump courted union voters during his successful 2024 presidential bid, and now Bloomberg reports that his incoming administration is poised to deliver a "body blow" to organized labor that has enjoyed a significant renaissance under President Joe Biden's administration.
While Biden's administration has helped multiple unions score big new contracts and organizing victories, as well as eliminating noncompete clauses that hold workers back, Trump's last National Labor Relations Board was far more hostile to organized labor and his next one could be even more so.
"The last time Trump ran the government, however, he filled key enforcement roles with management-side attorneys who pushed for companies to have more control over workers tips, more time to run anti-union campaigns and more discretion over who gets paid overtime," writes Bloomberg, before adding, "Now that hes had some practice, hes likely to do more, faster."
What's more, Bloomberg notes that the GOP blueprint Project 2025 "calls for the loosening of laws governing safety, nondiscrimination and child labor, and floats eliminating public-sector unions" all together.
Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor historian at the University of California at Santa Barbara, tells Bloomberg that he expects a second Trump administration will deliver "a warrant for employers to do whatever they want."....................
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New Trump admin to deliver 'body blow' to unions after courting union workers: report (Original Post)
riversedge
Nov 9
OP
cilla4progress
(25,901 posts)1. Sow the wind
Reap the whirlwind
XanaDUer2
(13,829 posts)2. Oh well
kansasobama
(1,493 posts)3. Unions deserve it
Have fun
Most of them were for Harris.
newdeal2
(972 posts)6. Leadership or rank and file?
bdamomma
(66,364 posts)5. of course
the felon will deal a body blow to Unions he hates them. He is NOT for the people just wait till Jan 2025.
Those who voted for him are in a world of hurt. There will be a reckoning between the rich vs the poor.
alarimer
(16,574 posts)7. But I didn't think the leopards would actually eat MY face.
Shame on any union leader who fell for Trump's bullshit.