"The Trump administration is one of the most anti-labor administrations in modern U.S. history - it has attempted to decertify the union representation of more than 1 million federal employees. Trump has also fired key members of the National Labor Relations Board, thus rendering it largely non-functional. Moreover his administration has come out against rules requiring disabled workers all be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, and it has blocked a Biden-era rule increasing the minimum wage for federal contractors."
"Despite faux-populist credentials and a claim to be addressing the forgotten multitudes, Trump 2.0 is simply following modern Republican Party orthodoxy. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since 2009, with the GOP stymying repeated efforts in Congress to increase the wage to at least keep up with the cost of living. As a result of this intransigence, the federal minimum wage today has the lowest real value that it has had since at least 1956."
The Trump administration pursued actions that weakened labor power, seeking decertification of union representation for over one million federal employees and removing key National Labor Relations Board members, leaving the agency largely non-functional. The administration opposed rules ensuring disabled workers receive at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour and blocked a Biden-era rule raising the minimum wage for federal contractors. The federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 since 2009 while prices rose more than 27 percent over 13 years, and subsequent inflation further eroded its real value. Trump urged McDonald’s executives to fight wage hikes and criticized California’s minimum wage increase.
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