"It's a big betrayal, Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, the main US labor federation, said. We knew it would be bad, but we had no idea how rapidly he would be doing these things. He is stripping away regulations that protect workers. His attacks on unions are coming fast and furious. He talks a good game of being for working people, but he's doing the absolute opposite. This is a government that is by, and for, the CEOs and billionaires, Shuler added."
"Despite his vow to help coal miners, Trump halted enforcement of a regulation that protects miners from a debilitating, often deadly lung disease. He fired the chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), leaving the US's top labor watchdog without a quorum to protect workers from corporations' illegal anti-union tactics. Angering labor leaders, Trump stripped one million federal workers of their right to bargain collectively and tore up their union contracts."
A prominent banner reading American Workers First contrasts with policies that critics say favor corporations over workers. Key actions include halting enforcement of a miner-protection regulation, firing the NLRB chair and leaving the board without a quorum, and stripping collective-bargaining rights from one million federal employees. The administration halted major wind projects and ended renewable-energy factory subsidies, affecting construction jobs. It proposed removing minimum wage and overtime protections for 3.7 million home-care and domestic workers and cancelled a plan to prevent employers from paying disabled workers below the federal minimum wage.
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