Trump Following Project 2025 Playbook, Destroy Workers' Rights, Unions, End Natl Labor Relations Bd/NLRB
- Photo: Federal workers and allies gathered at 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan, HQ of the U.S. Citizenship and Immig. Services (USCIS), and U.S. Immig. and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) for a protest against the Trump admin. and the Dept. of Govt. Efficiency (DOGE) to say NO to Musk's push to gut federal services by freezing funding and impose mass layoffs.
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'Trump Is Following the Project 2025 Playbook to Destroy Workers’ Rights,' Common Dreams, 2.23.25. Ed. - The massive curbs on workers’ rights that have occurred in the 1st month of the Trump admin. signal it’s likely that plenty more will follow during his tenure in office.
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Only a month into his 2nd term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers.
Currently, the best known of these threatened rights is probably job security, for the sudden onset of Trump’s mass, indiscriminate firing of more than 200,000 federal govt. workers has sparked a furor. Employed by the Depts. of Education and Veterans Affairs, the Federal Aviation Admin., the Forest Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other vital U.S. agencies, these workers appear to have been simply tossed out of their jobs without honoring the legal requirement of due process, including performance-based evaluations.
Trump claimed that the mass firings were necessary to save money and make the government more efficient.
But the president of the American Federation of Government Employees, Everett Kelley, retorted that the firings were really “about power,” with Trump “gutting the federal government, silencing workers, and forcing agencies into submission to a radical agenda that prioritizes cronyism over competence.” Thus, if Project 2025 does serve as a guide to Trump admin. policies toward workers’ rights, we should expect Trump’s future implementation of Project 2025’s recommendations for remarkably severe federal government measures against workers and their unions.
In addition, on Jan. 31, Trump announced plans to nullify contracts recently negotiated and signed with the labor unions representing federal workers.
Justifying this action, the president said that the contracts had been negotiated by former President Joe Biden “to harm my administration.” Trump selected an appropriate figure to undermine workers’ rights when he appointed Elon Musk as the head of his so-called Dept. of Government Efficiency. Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and Trump’s largest campaign contributor, was well known as rabidly anti-labor, and had repeatedly clashed with workers at the giant companies he owned, among them Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter).
Indeed, by Jan. 2025, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had 24 open investigations into labor law violations by these 3 firms, including alleged surveillance of employees at Twitter and interference with union organizing at Tesla. A day after the NLRB accused Musk’s SpaceX company of retaliating against workers who had dared to criticize his employment practices, SpaceX filed a lawsuit to have the NLRB, established by Congress in 1935, declared unconstitutional and terminated. Not surprisingly, Trump moved quickly to paralyze the activities of the NLRB, a federal agency created to guarantee American workers’ right to union representation... More,
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-destroys-workers-rights
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