Reported by Mark Gruenberg
Eliminate the minimum wage. Emasculate the National Labor Relations Board by cutting its budget, killing its rules and ending its jurisdiction over “small” businesses. Curb overtime pay. Make job safety and health depend on bosses’ “voluntary compliance.”
Kill worker protections in construction, seafaring and mass transit. Eliminate the Department of Education. Fire 50,000 federal workers and replace them with Trumpites, while trashing all federal workers civil service rights.
The East Palestine, Ohio, crash, fire and toxic cloud showed the impact. Freight rail unions and workers, and the AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department have worked with Ohio’s other senator, Democrat Sherrod Brown, to re-regulate the railroads, in safety’s name.
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