Project 2025, the 920-page blueprint for a second Trump administration, has been widely criticized for its regressive, anti-democratic agenda. The document’s policy proposals touch on every aspect of American life, from civil and reproductive rights to climate change to gutting the system of checks and balances underpinning our democracy.
The AFL-CIO wants to make sure that working Americans know that Project 2025 is also dangerously anti-union and anti-worker. They’ve created an online resource that clearly lays out all the ways Project 2025 and a second Trump presidency would unravel hard won labor rights and create new barriers to forming and sustaining unions.
For example, Project 2025 devotes multiple pages to union busting policies, including:
Making it easier for employers to get rid of workers’ unions in the middle of our contracts.
Banning all public employee unions.
Allowing states to ban labor unions, eliminate overtime protections and choose not to follow the national minimum wage.
Eliminating the child labor rules that protect children from working in mines, meatpacking plants and other dangerous workplaces.
There are also extensive proposals attacking workplace safety protections, retirement protections, and dismantling longstanding labor laws, like allowing employers to stop paying overtime. And this is just the beginning.
However, we have the power to prevent these proposed policies from becoming law. A recent poll by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst showed that Americans widely oppose the policies laid out in this so-called “Project.” And we know that Project 2025 is out of touch with most workers’ values because union approval is the highest it's been in generations.
That’s why we urge everyone who cares about workers’ rights to check out the AFL-CIO’s guide to Project 2025. Then we’ve got to fight back by doing everything we can to elect labor champions – at federal, state and local levels – this November.
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