https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-war-on-working-class
Project 2025 offers a plan to thoroughly dismantle more than a century of workers achievements in the struggle for both dignity and simple on-the-job survival.
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Its not exactly news that conservatives, who present themselves as the friends of working people, often support policies that threaten not only workers livelihoods, but their very lives. This fall, as we face the most consequential elections of my lifetime (all 71 years of it), rights that working people once upon a time fought and died forthe eight-hour day, a legal minimum wage, protections against child laborare, in effect, back on the ballot. The people preparing for a second Trump presidency arent hiding their intentions either. Anyone can discover them, for instance, in the Heritage Foundations well-publicized Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership, a presidential transition plan that any future Trump administration is expected to put into operation.
As Ive written before, TheNew York Timess Carlos Lozada did us a favor by working his way through all 887 pages of that tome of future planning. Lacking his stamina, I opted for a deep dive into a single chapter of it focused on the Department of Labor and Related Agencies. Its modest 35 pages offer a plan to thoroughly dismantle more than a century of workers achievements in the struggle for both dignity and simple on-the-job survival.