A second Trump administration would be a relentless war on labor
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Project 2025 in fact provides an excellent summary of what Trump’s “populism” entails:
Donald Trump proclaimed he was for “all the forgotten men and women”, in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention. His vice-presidential pick JD Vance consistently portrays himself as a pro-worker populist. But an analysis of the labor chapter of Project 2025 – an ambitious rightwing plan to guide the next Republican presidency – found it has little to offer them.
Project 2025’s labor section proposes hardly anything to improve workers’ wages and working conditions. It is, however, chock full of recommendations that would boost corporate profits, undercut labor unions and advance the rightwing culture war.
Project 2025 contains several recommendations that would, when taken together, cut the pay of millions of workers, especially by making overtime pay available to fewer workers, even though many Americans rely on overtime pay to make ends meet. This so-called “Presidential Transition Project” shows outright hostility toward government employee unions – whether police unions, firefighters’ unions or teachers’ unions – saying that Congress should consider abolishing all public sector unions. Project 2025 would further undermine unions by recommending a ban on the use of card check, one of labor’s most effective tools to organize workers. Once a union gets a majority of employees at a workplace to sign pro-union cards, unions often point to this majority support to persuade employers to grant union recognition and bargain.
And of course it’s not just theoretical — Trump’s first administration, very much including his NLRB nominees, was highly hostile to the interests of labor. And Vance’s populism comes straight from the postliberal ethos of his friends like Patrick Deneen — workers can eat vague rhetorical gestures and attacks on companies that don’t want to provide users with a firehose of Nazi content, Vance and Deneen get the bans on abortion they actually care about, and the rest of the corporate class gets what it wants as long as Republicans remain a vehicle for banning abortion.