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Trump Makes His Move at the NLRB
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 July 24, 2025 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | Trump is no friend of unions, as his order to unilaterally abrogate the government’s contracts with its federal employees’ unions makes unmistakably clear. But in this, he deviates from the traditional Republican opposition to unions only in degree. Ronald Reagan established the party’s savage hostility to independent workers’ organizations when he sacked striking air traffic controllers in 1981. Since then, every Republican president has appointed anti-union and management-side officials to head both the Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), despite the fact that the NLRB was established to ensure workers’ rights to collective bargaining. Trump’s new nominees come from the management side or—worse—are suffused with management’s ethos. The American Prospect
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