During his first term in office, Trump also changed rules at the Department of Labor. Because of this, over 8 million workers lost their right to earn overtime pay. This cut those workers’ wages by over $1 billion a year.
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Workers can fight for better pay and better working conditions by coming together and bargaining as a group. For years, Republican leaders have stopped new laws that would give workers more power to speak up without being punished and make it easier to form unions. During his first term, Trump promised to undo policies that […]
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Trump made the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) weaker by firing one of its members, Gwynne Wilcox. That made it hard for the board to make decisions on important worker’s rights cases.Trump also picked Acting General Counsel William Cowen. Cowen wrote rules that made it harder to protect workers and help them earn more money.
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Both Trump and Elon Musk are union busters. Trump said on record that US workers’ wages are too high, that he hates giving overtime pay, and that striking workers should be fired.