Friday, January 26, 2018

As State of the Union nears, is America great again for the working class? (Guardian)

.. Shareholders and CEOs may have done very well out of Trump’s first year in office. But workers’ rights, says lobby group Good Jobs Nation in a new analysis, have been systematically attacked in a way that will affect labour for decades to come.

Indeed Trump’s most significant accomplishment, according to director Joseph Geevarghese, has been to “eviscerate” all the gains the labour movement made under the Obama administration.

If your vision of the future is one where teenagers can work in logging or with pesticides and restaurant owners can grab their staff’s tips, America is great again. But many working Americans have ended the year with less security than they started with...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/25/trump-state-of-union-workers-rights-working-class-record

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