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Dear John,
“A horror story longer and scarier than The Shining, with all work and no pay.”
That’s how the labor activist group More Perfect Union sums up Project 2025’s treatment of workers’ rights in their new video report, which you can see here.
Trump makes a grand claim that he wants to eliminate taxes on overtime pay, but as usual, he is really a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The truth is that the GOP plan, described in Project 2025, calls for companies to set their own overtime policies.
We can only imagine what that would look like, especially considering the plan calls for replacing the 40-hour work week with a 160-hour work-month, so your boss could make you work extra hours but get out of paying overtime by slashing your hours weeks later. That’s on p. 592 of the plan.
Unions are surging nationwide, and the National Labor Relations Board is receiving more petitions for union elections than it has in decades. But Project 2025 seeks to undo all this progress and stack the NLRB with anti-union members to make sure worker complaints go unresolved.
Project 2025 is no joke. It’s a highly detailed, workable plan designed to enrich corporations while shredding hard-won workers’ rights.
Check out More Perfect Union’s video report here, then add your name to stand with workers and expose Project 2025's anti-worker agenda now!
How terrible is it? What exactly would Project 2025 mean for workers? Well, take a deep breath, because the list of anti-worker provisions is long and deep. Project 2025 would:
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Give employers power to decertify a union at any point, even during contract negotiations. That’s the whole ball game, right there. How can workers use their right to organize if the organization itself can be disbanded at the corporation’s whim!
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Let employers siphon off potential union members into their own alternate labor organizations, co-opting the workers into anti-union propaganda machines.
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Nominate an anti-labor Secretary of Labor (if you want to be reminded what “doublethink” is, be sure to re-read Orwell).
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Let states and local governments obtain waivers to be released from minimum wage requirements and other essential worker protections and safety standards.
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Let states apply for exemptions from the National Labor Relations Act, the seminal 1935 law underlying the unions, and thereby remove legal restrictions against intimidation and retribution against organizers.
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Make it more difficult for states to administer unemployment benefits, so far fewer workers would qualify.
It should be abundantly clear that Project 2025 and Trump’s GOP are no friends to labor. They will continue to use anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to appeal to white Christian men. But the diverse labor movement must repel the GOP’s attempts to turn workers against each other based on racial, ethnic, sexist, and religious differences.
Project 2025 is a dangerous blueprint designed to empower corporations and disempower workers. Watch the More Perfect Union report, share it, and pledge to expose the GOP’s anti-worker agenda.
Thank you for standing up for workers’ rights!!
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
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