By: Chris Owens and Samantha Sanders From day one, the Trump administration and Elon Musk have unleashed an unprecedented assault on the federal workforce. Recently, this has included announcing intentions to cut 15% of U.S.-based State Department staff, 10,000 jobs in the nation’s health care agencies, 80,000 Veterans Affairs positions, 7,000 in the Social Security …
Category Archives: Labor
A pro-worker majority is at stake in Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court election
The April 1 election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, pitting Judge Susan Crawford against Judge Brad Schimel, will have serious consequences for the state’s working families. Judge Crawford has demonstrated support of policies that raise workers’ wages and protect workers’ rights, while Judge Schimel supports policies that have demonstrably hurt Wisconsin workers and their families. …
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How Senator Vance’s anti-DEI bill would hurt workers and reward corporations
By: Samantha Sanders and Josh Bivens The Trump-Vance campaign claims to side with the virtuous working class against “woke” elites pushing their social agenda. This stance has always been a transparent scam—in just about every fight that pits the material interests of capital and corporations against those of typical workers, Trump and Vance favor the …
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Project 2025’s attacks on public-sector unions would cost workers billions per year
By: Josh Bivens and Celine McNicholas Donald Trump’s Project 2025 contains a long list of proposals that would make it harder for workers to win unions and the benefits of collective bargaining. The plan directly attacks public-sector unions, suggesting that they are “not compatible with constitutional government” and calls on Congress to consider banning them …
Five ways Project 2025 would harm construction workers
Donald Trump’s Project 2025 includes a long list of proposals that would lower wages, cut benefits, limit job opportunities, and increase risks of workplace injuries, discrimination, and wage theft for construction workers. Here are just five of the ways Project 2025 hurts construction workers. Driving down wages and benefits Project 2025 proposes slashing construction worker …
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Trump’s Project 2025 would put over 20 million workers at risk of wage theft and lower pay
By: David Cooper, Dave Kamper, and Sebastian Martinez Hickey The Republican Party has long opposed raising the federal minimum wage, and some even call for its repeal. Donald Trump’s Project 2025 proposes a new scheme to cut wages for the nation’s lowest-paid workers: allow states to opt out of federal wage and hour laws entirely, …
Trump’s claim that he would exempt overtime from taxes is deeply unserious
Donald Trump’s cynical new claim that he would exempt overtime from taxes is a sham. Trump has a long anti-overtime record. While president, he stripped overtime protections from millions by refusing to defend the Obama-era overtime rule in court and instead publishing his own, much weaker rule. Further, Project 2025, which provides a roadmap for …
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Project 2025 would strip federal overtime protections from at least 8 million workers
“The overtime provisions in Project 2025 comprise a profoundly anti-overtime agenda that will mean millions will be working more for less.” See the impact by state and demographics U.S. law requires that most workers receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. This is a fundamental employment standard that helps …
Trump’s Project 2025 would gut anti-discrimination enforcement in the workplace
By: Adewale Maye and Valerie Wilson During the first presidential debate, Donald Trump used the term “Black jobs” to falsely claim that immigrants were taking jobs mostly held by Black workers. While this generalization is both harmful and racist, this moment also highlighted the importance of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC …
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Project 2025’s anti-worker agenda is already being enacted in Republican-controlled states
Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would destroy fundamental rights and freedoms of working people and their families. We know Trump and far-right Republicans fully intend to enact Project 2025 policy proposals at the federal level if they win this fall because they’re already doing so in states where they control multiple branches of government. Here …
Trump’s Project 2025 would let states bypass laws protecting children from harmful working conditions
Corporate lobbyists and right-wing think tanks have been pushing proposals to weaken child labor laws in 31 states. Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda takes the attack on children a step further, proposing to let state and local governments obtain waivers (p. 605) from federal worker protection laws—including the minimum wage, overtime, and harmful forms of …
Five pro-worker actions by the Biden-Harris administration
The little-known Project 2025 tax on employee benefits
One (terrible) Project 2025 proposal has not yet gotten the attention it deserves: taxing the non-wage benefits that workers receive from their employers
How the vice-presidential candidates compare when it comes to workers
Governor Tim Walz has a long record of supporting working families, while Senator JD Vance has supported policies that will take working families backwards.
Project 2025 is not simply a “wish list”—it’s a real threat to our hard-fought rights and freedoms
By Celine McNicholas, General Counsel and Director of Policy, and Naomi Walker, Executive Vice President By now, you’ve likely heard of Project 2025, the policy mandate produced by the Heritage Foundation alongside more than 110 conservative groups that aims to completely overhaul U.S. government and society. You may have also heard about the recent staff …
Biden and Trump’s record on supporting workers’ right to join unions
How the Biden administration has restored and strengthened workers’ rights to form unions and engage in collective bargaining compared to the Trump administration.