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Three ways workers’ rights are on the chopping block under President Trump: Judging by the first Trump administration, workers and unions are set to face new attacks and a rollback of rights
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Unions are not only good for workers, they’re good for communities and for democracy: High unionization levels are associated with positive outcomes across multiple indicators of economic, personal, and democratic well-being
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Trump’s Department of Labor is dismantling key workplace protections
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Testimony prepared for OSHA’s Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings Rulemaking
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Trump’s attacks on the Department of Labor will hurt wages and working conditions
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House Republican budget bill gives Trump $185 billion to carry out his mass deportation agenda—while doing nothing for workers: Immigration enforcement would have 80 times more funding than labor standards enforcement
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How Trump has dismantled the federal workforce in his first 100 days
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Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever
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Progress on paid leave in the South: New state parental leave policies are a small but welcome step toward comprehensive paid leave for all Southern workers
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By repealing paid sick leave, Missouri legislators will hurt working families
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Coordinated attacks on state labor standards are laying the groundwork for dangerous Project 2025 proposals to undermine all workers’ rights
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Trump attacks on temporary immigration protections like TPS hurt the economy and strip millions of their workplace rights
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Corruption in plain sight: How Elon Musk has benefited from the first 100 days of the Trump administration
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Too many workers die on the job every year. Trump’s attacks on OSHA will kill more.
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A coalition of hundreds of employers is asking the Trump administration to override the NLRB and dictate labor law
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ICE under Trump is attacking labor rights by targeting a farmworker advocate
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Trump executive order to dismantle federal worker unions is an autocratic power grab
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Deliberate policy decisions have disempowered workers and increased labor market inequality: The new State of Working America Data Library shows the latest trends in productivity, wages, labor markets, unionization, and CEO pay
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Domestic workers’ pay and working conditions in the South reflect racist, gendered notions of care: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Spotlight
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It’s time for Colorado to remove barriers to unionization: Outdated “second election” rule is rooted in anti-worker, white supremacist history
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271,500 workers went on strike in 2024: Current labor law doesn’t adequately protect workers’ fundamental right to strike
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Here are the ways the Trump administration is already trampling on workers’ rights: Weeks into Trump’s second term, one thing is clear—billionaires are being prioritized over working people
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Corporate union busting in plain sight: How Amazon, Starbucks, and Trader Joe’s crushed dynamic grassroots worker organizing campaigns
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16 million workers were unionized in 2024: Millions more want to join unions but couldn’t
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Testimony presented to the Colorado Senate Committee on Business, Technology, and Labor in support of SB25-005, Worker Protection Collective Bargaining: Colorado can restore workers’ collective bargaining rights by reforming outdated, anti-union state labor law
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EPI comment on OSHA’s proposed heat standard rule
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More than $1.5 billion in stolen wages recovered for workers between 2021 and 2023
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Three ways workers’ rights are on the chopping block under President Trump: Judging by the first Trump administration, workers and unions are set to face new attacks and a rollback of rights
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The policies that will determine whether Trump’s labor secretary pick supports workers
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Measuring diversity in construction apprenticeship programs: Data show higher rates of participation of women, Hispanic workers, and workers of color in union-based apprenticeships than nonunion programs
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NLRB rules anti-union captive audience meetings an illegal abuse of employer power: States must also continue to broaden protection of workers’ freedom from employer coercion on political, religious matters
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Busting the union busters: The need to improve transparency around union-busting activity