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-- 2016 --
July 12:
When Donald Trump Had a
Choice, He Chose Nonunion Labor for His Construction Projects with IBEW
Donald Trump has admitted before that when he has a
choice between union and nonunion labor for his construction projects,
he'd go with nonunion labor. Just how often was that? A new report from the
Electrical Workers (IBEW)
reveals some figures about his dealings with IBEW contractors.
https://aflcio.org/2016/7/12/when-donald-trump-had-choice-he-chose-nonunion-labor-his-construction-projects-ibew
September 4: Donald Trump Is the Anti–Labor
Day Candidate: Running Against Fair Wages, Worker Rights, and Unions
And the party’s platform is a litany of foolish dreams and ugly thoughts.
Donald Trump, the billionaire candidate who has
argued that “having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country”
and complained in a
2015 GOP debate that wages are “too high,” is running for president this fall on
the most virulently anti-worker and anti-union
platform in the history of his
Republican Party.
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-the-anti-labor-day-candidate-running-against-fair-wages-worker-rights-and-unions/
November 18: Clinton got union money, but
Trump won many workers' hearts and minds
Increasing number of laborers favored Republican president-elect
Trump “used our rhetoric on trade and keeping jobs in America,” the AFL-CIO
said, adding, “he forged a personal connection with working people by
acknowledging their resentment about the rules being written to marginalize
them.”
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/11/18/20480/clinton-got-union-money-trump-won-many-workers-hearts-and-minds
November 23:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
November 29:
Why America’s labor
unions are about to die
https://theconversation.com/why-americas-labor-unions-are-about-to-die-69575
-- 2017 --
January 17:
The Future Of Labor Unions Under Trump
https://www.bankrate.com/personal-finance/smart-money/labor-unions-whats-their-future-under-trump/
January 26: Donald Trump Woos Organized
Labor, and Hardhats Are Swooning
The President’s master plan to flip union members in time for his reelection is
off to a dangerously successful start — but Democrats still have time to
counterpunch.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-woos-organized-labor-and-hardhats-are-swooning
January 30: Union Leaders for Trump
Feeling betrayed by Democrats, blue-collar trade unions throw their support to a
Republican president.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/union-leaders-trump-14992.html
February 6:
The Unions
Betraying the Left
By embracing Donald Trump, the building trades are
selling out the movement for greater equality for all working people.
https://newrepublic.com/article/140423/unions-betraying-left
March 1: Trump and union leaders find shaky
common ground: 'He’s promised that he’s going to create good jobs'
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-union-leaders-labor-secretary-2017-2
April 8:
Donald Trump woos the
labour unions
But they may not jump the way he wants
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/04/08/donald-trump-woos-the-labour-unions
April 26: Trump Tax Plan Hurts Union Workers
https://medium.com/@mariocostanz/trump-tax-plan-hurts-union-workers-509e4cb7146c
May 24: The Myth of a Pro-Union Trump ...
Following this budget proposal, there should be no lingering doubt about which
side Trump is really on.
For many years, it had been assumed that the species known as the “pro-union
Republican” had gone the way of the dinosaur or the dodo bird. For some,
however, the 2016 election resurrected some Jurassic Park-like fantasies of its
resurrection. Trump teased us with hints of it during the campaign—he was
apparently anti-trade, he claimed he would bring back industries with high union
density, like manufacturing and coal, and promised a “yuge”
infrastructure-spending plan. Union members responded by coming out to vote for
him in higher proportions than they have for any Republican presidential
candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
https://democracyjournal.org/briefing-book/the-myth-of-a-pro-union-trump/
July 14: As Media Focuses on Russia
Collusion, Trump Is Quietly Stacking the Labor Board with Union Busters
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20329/NLRB-Donald-Trump-union-busters-appointees-labor
July 19: Trump’s Labor Board Appointments
Are Another Blow for Unions
A Senate committee approved Trump’s two nominees on Wednesday.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/07/trumps-labor-board-appointments-are-another-blow-for-unions/
December 6:
Trump administration opposes unions in
key Supreme Court case
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/trump-unions-supreme-court-285260
December 19: Donald Trump, Union Buster
The president’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board have already
incinerated Obama’s labor legacy.
The National Labor Relations Board is an
independent agency
tasked
with “encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining.”
Under the Trump administration, however, it appears to have adopted a new
mission: to incinerate every Obama-era rule as quickly as possible.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/12/donald_trump_s_union_busting_appointees_just_incinerated_obama_s_labor_legacy.html
-- 2018 --
Winter edition:
Trump and the Labor Movement
A Look Beyond the Immediate Damage
We working people live in darkening times. When the Trump presidency ends in
four years—if it does—we may no longer have an organized labor movement.
“We are at the beginning of the end of the U.S. labor movement based on a
partnership with capital.” We are at the twilight of an era. Labor unions and
collective bargaining stand to be swept away, and with them the institutions
that have sheltered us in the workplace and provided us with a modicum of job
security, living wages, health insurance, and pension benefits.
http://newpol.org/content/trump-and-labor-movement
January 2: New Trump NLRB Delivers on
Employer Promises
Board overturns Obama-Era decisions on micro-unions and joint employer status.
For most of the Obama era, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) pushed the
legal envelope on every front in order to promote the interests of labor unions.
Under President Trump, once the board finally attained a Republican
majority—even if only for a few days—that battered envelope began to be
repaired.
http://www.mhlnews.com/labor-management/new-trump-nlrb-delivers-employer-promises
February 19:
President Trump-appointed Neil
Gorsuch holds the key vote in a case to be heard next week over whether
public-sector unions should require people who don't want to be union members to
pay for collective bargaining,
the AP reports.
Why it matters: Unions are major financial backers of Democratic
candidates and causes across the country, and a rebuke from Gorsuch would deal a
crushing blow to organized labor. Even though Trump overwhelmingly won support
from white working-class voters, he had
expressed support for the right-to-work movement. Per Politico,
his administration sides with the plaintiff who's challenging the
"fair-share fees." The Supreme Court had reached a 4-4 deadlock in 2016 on the
issue following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
https://www.axios.com/neil-gorsuch-holds-key-vote-labor-union-fee-case-ac05dcdb-c4b3-45b3-94b5-d21761f0ea97.html
May 4: Democrats target union workers who
regret Trump vote
... with coal still struggling and Trump stoking a trade war — many union
workers have soured on the president ahead of November’s midterm congressional
elections, the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/democrats-target-union-workers-who-regret-trump-vote/article_a0c5444b-2f5f-55c3-86a3-9a43b2d5507f.html
May 23:
Planned Parenthood Is Asking Donald Trump’s Labor Board for Help
Busting Its Colorado Union
Colorado Planned Parenthood executives, with help from President Donald
Trump’s labor board appointees, are fighting their health center workers’
unionization efforts in a case that could set a precedent for workers’ rights
nationwide.
The case is Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc. v. SEIU.
Staff for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, in coordination with SEIU
Local 105, won the election for their union in December 2017. But shortly after
the vote to unionize, Planned Parenthood leadership, instead of recognizing the
new unit, turned to the Republican-controlled National Labor Relations Board to
challenge the outcome.
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/planned-parenthood-union-nlrb/
May 25: Trump Signs Orders Cracking Down on
Federal Workers' Unions
Order limits time spent on union duties, charges unions rent
Follows wave of GOP-backed state laws limiting public unions
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-25/trump-signs-executive-orders-cracking-down-on-employee-unions
May 25: Trump eases firing of federal
workers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-workers/trump-eases-firing-of-federal-workers-cracks-down-on-unions-idUSKCN1IQ355
May 25: President Donald J. Trump Is
Reforming the Civil Service to Work for the American People
To empower our civil servants to best help others, the government must always
operate more efficiently and more securely.
President Trump signed an
Executive Order requiring agencies to negotiate better union contracts in a more
efficient and transparent manner.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-reforming-civil-service-work-american-people/
May 29: In one fell swoop over the Memorial
Day weekend, President Trump limited federal union representatives to no more
than 25 percent of their time assisting colleagues with filing grievances,
addressing sexual harassment claims, and resolving workplace problems. For a
president who has been the object of numerous grievance complaints and sexual
harassment claims, the hypocrisy of limiting time to pursue such claims is
shocking.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/05/29/trumps-executive-order-on-unions-will-hurt-federal-employees/
May 31:
'This Is a Democracy, Not a
Dictatorship': Federal Workers Union Sues Donald Trump
"This president seems to think he is above the law,
and we are not going to stand by while he tries to shred workers' rights."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/democracy-not-dictatorship-federal-workers-union-sues-donald-trump
June 1: 2nd federal union sues Trump
administration over workforce executive orders
The National Treasury Employees Union on Friday became the second major labor
organization to sue the Trump administration over the president’s
workforce executive orders.
“NTEU believes the president exceeded his authority in several provisions of his
executive orders,” union national president Tony Reardon said Friday in a
statement
The American Federation of Government Employees filed
its own lawsuit in federal district court Wednesday, though it made a different
argument than NTEU.
https://federalnewsradio.com/unions/2018/06/2nd-federal-union-sues-trump-administration-over-workforce-executive-orders/
June 26: Trump ignored pleas from
Harley-Davidson workers to save their jobs
Now he’s fuming at the company on Twitter.
In January Harley
announced plans to close a plant in Kansas City, Missouri, and subsequently
lay off some 800 workers there. It plans to shift the production to another
plant in York, Pennsylvania, but the restructuring will still lead to a net loss
of 350 American jobs.
Kansas City workers say they were caught completely off guard by the decision.
They were further incensed by Harley’s decision to open a plant in Thailand and
an announcement days after the plant-closure news that the Milwaukee,
Wisconsin-based company would enact a
stock buyback program worth some $700 million.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17505578/trump-harley-davidson-union
June 27: Supreme Court Deals Big Setback to
Labor Unions
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can’t be forced to
contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing
a serious financial blow to organized labor.
The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to
require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even
if the workers choose not to join.
Labor leaders fear that not only will workers who don’t belong to a union stop
paying fees, but that some union members might decide to stop paying dues if
they could in essence get the union’s representation for free.
http://time.com/5323405/supreme-court-labor-unions-decision/
June 27: New York union leader says Trump
could have mentored Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-csea-donohue-trump-hitler-20180627-story.html
June 28:
White Plains teachers flooded with emails from [Education Secretary Betsy]
DeVos-funded Mackinac org post-Janus
Hours after Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that public employees do not
have to pay union fees if they don’t join their labor organization, teachers in
the White Plains school district began receiving emails advising them how to opt
out of the union....
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2018/06/28/teachers-emails-mackinac/743033002/
July 26:
Trump Launches War on Federal Unions
http://labornotes.org/2018/07/trump-launches-war-federal-unions
September
3: Trump criticizes union leader on Labor Day: ‘It is
easy to see why unions are doing so poorly’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-criticizes-union-leader-on-labor-day-it-is-easy-to-see-why-unions-are-doing-so-poorly/2018/09/03/99b2849c-af85-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.5d42c3c5e86d
December
26: President Trump Said Federal Workers Support the
Shutdown. Not True, Say Unions Representing Hundreds of Thousands
http://time.com/5488527/donald-trump-shutdown-federal-employees/
-- 2019 --
January
21: Aviation Unions Warn Government Shutdown Will Likely Cause Mass
Flight Cancelations Soon: The System Will ‘Crumble And Unravel’
https://www.newsweek.com/aviation-unions-warn-government-shutdown-will-likely-cause-mass-flight-1299467
-- 2020 --
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