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Here are the Ways the Trump Admin Is Already Trampling on Workers’ Rights [1]
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Date: 2025-02
Less than a month into his second term, President Trump has undertaken dozens of actions that harm workers, the economy and our democracy. If it feels like déjà vu, it is. Many of these actions were introduced during his first term, when President Trump attacked unions, workers’ wages and workplace health and safety. But now, equipped with policies from the Heritage Foundation’s far-right Project 2025, Trump is going even further to prioritize the interests of corporations and billionaires like Elon Musk over working people.
On day one, President Trump issued several executive orders that impact the federal workforce. This included reinstating Schedule F, which upends longstanding job protections for federal career employees and makes it easier to fire them for any reason. He also overturned federal collective bargaining and affirmed due process protections, instituted a federal hiring freeze, and mandated federal workers return to in-person work five days a week.
President Trump also created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk, to help “reduce wasteful spending” in the federal government. Under the guise of budget reductions, DOGE has demoralized and villainized the more than two million federal workers—nearly 30% of whom are union workers — who provide essential government services.
Last week, In These Times broke the news that Elon Musk and DOGE are targeting the Department of Labor and accessing sensitive worker data. (EPI and our labor partners filed a lawsuit against DOGE from gaining access to this vital government data.) Earlier this month, DOGE gained access to systems at the U.S. Treasury Department, including access to the disbursement of vital programs such as Social Security and Medicare, with the intention to undemocratically cut already appropriated funds for federal programs that the Trump administration doesn’t like. While the Trump administration has clarified that Musk receives “read only” access, it’s deeply troubling that an unelected billionaire has any access to such information — especially when that anti-union CEO has received multiple allegations of breaking federal employment laws.
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