‘A very hostile climate for workers’: US labor movement struggles under Trump

"The NLRB's employees just want to do our jobs and be treated with respect," said one official. "But from day one, this administration has crippled the agency, and treated us as enemies." 

Staff can see "firsthand the damage that is being done", the staffer continued, claiming they and their colleagues had been left "demoralized and disgusted" by Trump's agenda. 

The National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935 to federally protect workers' rights to organize and engage in collective bargaining, now exists "on paper only", the official claimed…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/labor-movement-union-trump-nlrb

 

Angry Whistleblower SNEAKILY EXPOSES ELON MUSK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_aZ1CRPLvY

Judge says Trump illegally fired National Labor Relations Board member - The Washington Post

A federal judge says Gwynne Wilcox must remain at the agency that oversees relations among workers, labor unions and employers, setting up a Supreme Court showdown...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/06/nlrb-trump-ruling-gwynne-wilcox/

Amazon, SpaceX and other companies are arguing the government agency that has protected labor rights since 1935 is actually unconstitutional

Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks and Trader Joe's have all respondedt o allegations that they have violated labor laws with the same bold argument. The National Labor Relations Board, they assert in several ongoing legal proceedings, is unconstitutional.

https://theconversation.com/amazon-spacex-and-other-companies-are-arguing-the-government-agency-that-has-protected-labor-rights-since-1935-is-actually-unconstitutional-225611

https://theconversation.com/amazon-spacex-and-other-companies-are-arguing-the-government-agency-that-has-protected-labor-rights-since-1935-is-actually-unconstitutional-225611

Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

Upset by the surge in union drives, several of the best-known corporations in the US are seeking to cripple the country's top labor watchdog, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), by having it declared unconstitutional. Some labor experts warn that if those efforts succeed, US labor relations might return to "the law of the jungle"…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/10/starbucks-trader-joes-spacex-challenge-labor-board

Elon Musk's Tesla illegally suppressed union supporters' free speech, labor board rules.

In a major ruling, the NLRB held that Tesla violated employees' free speech rights by suppressing their ability to support a union drive at work…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/08/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-union-free-speech.html

NLRB announces new rule making it harder to challenge franchises for labor-law violations | TheHill

A newly-introduced National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regulation, set to take effect in April, would make it more difficult for workers to hold companies responsible for labor violations by individual franchises. The rule reverses an Obama-era NLRB policy that deemed companies like McDonald’s to be “joint employers” and thus responsible for franchise-level violations such as retaliatory firings for union organizing, The New York Times reported. ...
https://thehill.com/regulation/labor/484689-nlrb-announces-new-rule-making-it-harder-to-challenge-franchises-for-labor

Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Trips Up Again - Mother Jones

Under the Trump administration, the National Labor Relations Board has been trying to roll back an Obama-era decision that made companies more responsible for temporary staffers, fast-food-franchise workers and others who work for them indirectly. The first attempt was foiled in early 2018 when a Trump appointee to the board was found to have a conflict of interest. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/trumps-national-labor-relations-board-trips-up-again/

Trump Appointees Tried to Roll Back Workers' Rights—But Then Elizabeth Warren Happened - Mother Jones

In December, the National Labor Relations Board—the federal agency tasked with enforcing workers' rights—voted to undo a high-profile Obama-era ruling that made it easier for fast food workers to unionize, and to hold accountable the enormous companies functioning as their employers. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/trump-appointees-tried-to-roll-back-workers-rights-but-then-elizabeth-warren-happened/

Trump violates federal labor law, refuses to negotiate with his Vegas workers’ union

As Donald Trump makes his final pitch to U.S. voters — calling himself “financially brave” and promising “law and order, balanced with justice and fairness” — he faces new charges that he violated the federal labor rights of his own employees.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday night that Trump has been illegally refusing to bargain with the 500-odd employees at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. They officially unionized earlier this year.

“We find that the Respondent’s conduct constitutes an unlawful failure and refusal to recognize and bargain with the Union,” the NLRB wrote....
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-violates-federal-labor-law-refuses-to-negotiate-with-his-vegas-workers-union-44de410198e2#.uoco3eajw