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In 2025, the Biggest Union-Buster in History Dominates Workers’ Struggles
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 Dec. 29, 2025 | PERSPECTIVE | Workers faced one big, dominating, and dominant enemy in 2025: Donald Trump. Through a series of edicts and with the gleeful aid of a compliant congressional Republican majority and two henchmen—Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and multibillionaire chainsaw-wielder Elon Musk—President Donald Trump became “the biggest union-buster in U.S. history,” according to AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. … Labor has fought back through a series of lawsuits and won a majority of the cases it filed in lower courts. Appeals courts have split, however, and the six-justice GOP-named majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, especially Justice Samuel Alito, is hostile to workers. So, workers are taking to the streets, and often to strikes. Peoples’ World
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