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By Mark Gruenberg
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—The Republican Party’s 2020 “platform” has almost nothing for workers. Technically, there’s not a platform at all and the only thing workers need, according to the GOP, is four more years of Trump.
Instead of a platform, there’s a two-page 355-word statement issued by Oval Office occupant Donald Trump himself. In simple phrases of a few words each, he describes what he would push if voters return him to the White House on November 3.
And for the rest, the GOP Convention’s Executive Committee decided, voters should consult the document adopted in the party convention in Cleveland four years ago. That platform had few worker-oriented provisions, too—and most of them were negative.
On worker issues the contrast between the two parties is enormous. The detailed 2020 Democratic platform, unveiled about two weeks before, is the strongest pro-worker platform in 50 years, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, a drafting committee member....
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