Trump / project 2025

[Nickjamesups]

How can any union president be associated with a candidate who supports this anti labor project? Brothers and Sisters please read through this!

[Thisischange?]

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise

Eye opening and frightening

[JT67]

We are screwed my friend. We are screwed.

[Noman2024]

The Project 2025 report is 900 pages long. The sections on the Departments of Labor and Transportation start around page 581. I know this is lengthy, but here are some of the most troublesome proposals. Editorial comments are in [].



Autonomous Vehicles

The Project proposes that DOT “should work to facilitate the safe and full integration of automated vehicles into the national transportation system…FMCA should work [to] allow the drivers to be safely removed from the operations of a commercial vehicle.” (p. 625)

Organizing Issues

Eliminate card check recognition (p. 602)



Restore the pre-Biden Owner-Operator definitions and Joint Employer rules that have been largely replaced by the current NLRB [Reverting to the rules in place during 2019-2021 would make organizing the drivers employed by small so-called independent companies, rather than the Amazons and FedExs of the economy, virtually impossible. If we were to go back to the days when the Republican dominated NLRB members drew a line between small service providers and the corporations to which they were dependent for survival, the union’s ability to pressure Amazon or picket Amazon facilities because of unfair labor practices committed by its subcontactors would be significantly curtailed.] (p. 591)



Eliminate contract bar rules and permit challenges to a union’s representational status at any time [Current law provides a newly elected union a period to negotiate a first contract and also limits the filing of decertification petitions during the term of a collective agreement] (p.602)



Increase the annual business revenue an employer must earn for the NLRB to assert jurisdiction to enforce the NLRA [This would effectively exempt workers at small businesses from labor law protections, including the right to use the NLRB to seek representation elections, or compel the employer to bargain, or to investigate what today would be considered unfair labor practices. Employees of exempt employers have no enforceable protections. And for those whose frustration with the current state of the law has led them to believe that they can go back to the pre-NLRA days of the Minneapolis general strike, consider how Trump has talked about using the National Guard and armed services to deal with such domestic disorders] (p. 594)



Create the right to form “non-union employee involvement organizations” commonly referred to as “sweetheart or captive company unions” to act as substitutes to labor organizations that are independent from employer control [This is a concept that pre-dates the passage of the NLRA in 1935 and was used effectively to stifle organizing efforts by claiming that there was already a union in place] (p.599)



End exclusive representation for unions that have been certified as the majority bargaining representative (p.594) [A back door approach to nation-wide right to work]



Limit the concept of “collective concerted activity”, permitting employers to promulgate and apply work rules on individual workers who would not be entitled to NLRB protections



Allow state-by-state waivers of the NLRA and FLSA [Do you really consider that red state legislatures will do a better job adopting laws that encourage or promote unions?](p.605)



Representation/Bargaining/Administrative Issues



Allow employers to insist upon bargaining to avoid application of FLSA and OSHA regulations (p.603)



Eliminate PLAs and revoke Davis Bacon Act (p.604)



Allow employers to avoid FLSA overtime provisions by “allowing” employees to accumulate paid time off in lieu of overtime pay (p.587)



Allow employers to specify the day of the week to observe the Sabbath, for which FLSA overtime rules would apply; the default day would be Sunday, “except for employers with sincere religious observance of a different time.” [The sincere religious beliefs of the employees are not controlling] (p.589)



Allow duty of fair representation suits to be filed by members in represented bargaining units if unions spend dues money contrary to their political views (p.600)



Eliminate the Office of Federal Contract Compliance. Prohibit employers from receiving federal funds if they adopt or implement anti-discrimination provisions or require DEI training. Allow employers that discriminate to receive federal contracts. (p.582)



Prohibit provisions of ERISA health plans that provide abortion services in violation of restrictive rules adopted by the states. Require such medical plans to provide additional protections for pregnant women and new mothers. (p.584-585)



Restrict DOL’s ability to require the posting of notices and advisories to inform employees of their FLSA rights. (p.593)

[Wiggy]

This is literally a wish list for every big anti-union company in America. We are soooo screwed with this agenda. Any one of them are deadly.

[Nickjamesups]

Trump supporters claim he has denounced this , it kind of seems to echo everything he has stood for in the past. Am I wrong?

[Noman2024]

Trump’s response to the almost unanimous denunciation of the Project 2025 remake America scheme once again demonstrates his patented tactic of dancing around any controversial issue to appeal to all sides, no matter how contradictory their opposing points of view. He is a master at alternately embracing and criticizing policies, often in the same rant. Unfortunately, this tactic has served him well with his base; many of his rally participants apparently don’t follow one disjointed sentence to the next. This part of his persona is so commonplace that the media has grown tired of reporting these deceptions. But those of you who are of Trump’s age undoubtedly remember the key phrase used by the Nazi officers in the TV series, Hogan’s Heros, “I know nothing, absolutely nothing.” This immediate knee jerk “I know nothing [about Project 25]” reaction is entirely consistent with his favorite dodge. Recall his statement after having dinner with holocaust denier Nick Fuentes in 2022 (I “never met and know nothing about him.” Pictures of his dining companions soon circulated.) Ditto the Proud Boys (“doesn’t know who they are”) or the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville (“very fine people.”) Or his meetings with and endorsement by Richard Spencer (neo-Nazi) and David Duke (KKK).
Anyone paying attention knows Trump has endorsed right to work (“I like right to work”); considers administrative agencies to be part of the “deep state” that created the “swamp” of regulations that shackle his businesses; favors non-union locations to pledge his undying support for workers; has a history of crossing picket lines; etc. I pose this question to his supporters; What portions of this roadmap for a “New American Revolution” do you think Trump does not support? The positions set forth in the 920-page Project 2025 were authored by 31 people who held official positions in the Trump Administration, some on his White House inner staff, as opposed to 7 participants who were not among his official appointments. Presumably, most are eager to return to government service should he be elected to oversee implementation of their “revolutionary” vision of a New America. Anyone who believes Trump “knows nothing” about these proposals should Google his default denials over the last 8 years or watch old Hogan Heros episodes.

[JT67]

Even if trump gets in. Most of this project 25 stuff still won’t happen. We are fighters. I have to believe there are enough of us. Good has to win. Right

[TheMilitantTeamster]

Trumps closest ppl came up with this shit

[WTF891]

The sheeple will follow their orange Messiah.

[Nights]

Trump’s response to the almost unanimous denunciation of the Project 2025 remake America scheme once again demonstrates his patented tactic of dancing around any controversial issue to appeal to all sides, no matter how contradictory their opposing points of view. He is a master at alternately embracing and criticizing policies, often in the same rant. Unfortunately, this tactic has served him well with his base; many of his rally participants apparently don’t follow one disjointed sentence to the next. This part of his persona is so commonplace that the media has grown tired of reporting these deceptions. But those of you who are of Trump’s age undoubtedly remember the key phrase used by the Nazi officers in the TV series, Hogan’s Heros, “I know nothing, absolutely nothing.” This immediate knee jerk “I know nothing [about Project 25]” reaction is entirely consistent with his favorite dodge. Recall his statement after having dinner with holocaust denier Nick Fuentes in 2022 (I “never met and know nothing about him.” Pictures of his dining companions soon circulated.) Ditto the Proud Boys (“doesn’t know who they are”) or the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville (“very fine people.”) Or his meetings with and endorsement by Richard Spencer (neo-Nazi) and David Duke (KKK).
Anyone paying attention knows Trump has endorsed right to work (“I like right to work”); considers administrative agencies to be part of the “deep state” that created the “swamp” of regulations that shackle his businesses; favors non-union locations to pledge his undying support for workers; has a history of crossing picket lines; etc. I pose this question to his supporters; What portions of this roadmap for a “New American Revolution” do you think Trump does not support? The positions set forth in the 920-page Project 2025 were authored by 31 people who held official positions in the Trump Administration, some on his White House inner staff, as opposed to 7 participants who were not among his official appointments. Presumably, most are eager to return to government service should he be elected to oversee implementation of their “revolutionary” vision of a New America. Anyone who believes Trump “knows nothing” about these proposals should Google his default denials over the last 8 years or watch old Hogan Heros episodes.

Thanks for both your posts on this subject. I have to believe that the more people learn about "Project 2025" and its authors, they will reject it and its candidate. There's something to piss-off just about everyone in it. Thanks for pointing out the labor issues so thoroughly.