The State of the Union Is...
From the AFL-CIO
Over the past two years, the Trump administration has overseen a wide-ranging and deeply harmful assault on the rights, dignities and livelihoods of working people. Here are just a few of the president’s worst anti-worker actions:
- Denied a paycheck to 40% of the federal work force through the longest government shutdown in history.
- Jammed through massive corporate tax cuts on the backs of working people, encouraging further outsourcing and automation.
- Derailed the Department of Labor’s overtime rule, blocking millions of workers from receiving a pay raise.
- Proposed widespread cuts to health care, targeting critical funding for Medicare and Medicaid, as well as the health coverage of millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions.
- Undermined the new conflict of interest rule, potentially costing working people more than one-quarter of our retirement savings.
- Stacked the National Labor Relations Board with union-busting corporate lawyers.
- Made workplaces more dangerous by rolling back important federal safety regulations.
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