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NEW AFL-CIO GUIDE ON PROJECT 2025  
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Brett Wilkins
July 19, 2024
CommonDreams
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_ "A second Trump term would put everything we've fought for—good
jobs, fair wages, healthcare, retirement security, worker safety—on
the chopping block," said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler. _

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks as AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler
stands by at the labor federation's Washington, D.C. on July 10,
2024., Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

 

The U.S.' largest labor union federation on Thursday launched a
comprehensive new online guide detailing how Project 2025—the
far-right initiative [[link removed]]
to boost the power of the presidency and purge the federal civil
service—would threaten worker rights and well-being under a second
administration of former Republican President Donald Trump.
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"We are deeply concerned about pro-corporate policies that would drive
up costs, put people out of work, endanger people's lives, and make it
harder for working people to get ahead," the AFL-CIO—which endorsed
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last year—said in a statement
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"For unions, this agenda would make it tougher for members to win
gains in our next contracts and stack the deck in favor of CEOs."

Trump has recently tried to distance himself from Project 2025 and
appeal [[link removed]] to working-class
voters by announcing Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate and
inviting International Brotherhood of Teamsters general president Sean
O'Brien's to speak at this week's Republican National Convention—but
progressives and labor advocates are calling
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The AFL-CIO guide highlights [[link removed]]
how Project 2025
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would "be catastrophic for working people," including by:

* Banning unions for public service workers (page 82);
* Firing civil service workers and replacing them with Trump
anti-union loyalists (page 80);
* Letting bosses eliminate unions mid-contract (page 603);
* Letting companies stop paying overtime (page 592) and allowing
states to opt out of federal overtime and minimum wage laws (page
605);
* Eliminating child labor protections (page 595); and
* Urging Congress to pass Sen. JD Vance's bill to let employers
create their own sham company-run unions (page 599).

"In his first term as president, Donald Trump was a disaster for
workers and our unions, governing exclusively for the wealthy and
well-connected," AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler said in a statement
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Thursday.
"The Trump Project 2025 Agenda lays out his plan to turbocharge his
anti-worker policies, eliminate or control unions, and eviscerate
labor laws and workers' contracts," she continued. "A second Trump
term would put everything we've fought for—good jobs, fair wages,
healthcare, retirement security, worker safety—on the chopping
block.

"This new online tool is an essential part of our massive voter
education campaign to reach every union household with critical
information about the stakes of this election," Shuler added. "Union
voters could be the difference-makers in this election, and the
AFL-CIO and affiliated unions have a plan to mobilize tens of
thousands of grassroots activists across every community to get the
message out and vote."

"Union voters could be the difference-makers in this election."

While Trump has dubiously attempted to distance himself from the
far-right Project 2025 by claiming
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knows "nothing" about it or "who is behind it," at least 140 people
who worked in his administration helped draft the initiative's policy
document, according to
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_CNN_ review.

Furthermore, Trump's campaign has acknowledged
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that Agenda 47 [[link removed]], "the only
official comprehensive and detailed look at what President Trump will
do if he returns to the White House," aligns well with Project 2025.
According to a survey published
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the progressive messaging firm Navigator Research, a majority of
Americans believe that Project 2025 represents what Trump stands for.

During his rambling Republican National Convention speech accepting
the GOP nomination Thursday night, Trump—during whose tenure the
offshoring of U.S. jobs increased
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United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain should lose his job for
letting automakers build factories in countries including Mexico.

"The United Auto Workers ought to be ashamed for allowing this to
happen, and the leader of the United Auto Workers should be fired
immediately and every single autoworker, union and nonunion, should be
voting for Donald Trump, because we're going to bring back car
manufacturing and we're going to bring it back fast," Trump said.

UAW—which endorsed [[link removed]]
Biden in January—hit back on social media, calling
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billionaire."

Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

Common Dreams is powered by optimists who believe in the power of
informed and engaged citizens to ignite and enact change to make the
world a better place.

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