Labor Day provides an appropriate time to reflect upon how Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans, if restored to power, will deal with the American Labor Movement.

Much of the evidence on this score is available in Project 2025, a 922-page public policy agenda, produced by the Heritage Foundation, for the first 180 days of a new Republican Administration.

Ever since 1981, this exceptionally wealthy, Conservative, and powerful Washington Think Tank has been churning out blueprints for incoming Republican Administrations.

In fact, the Heritage Foundation performed the same service for the first Trump Administration, bragging after only a year that the Trump White House had implemented nearly two-thirds of its proposals.

However, the Project 2025 Policy Agenda is far-ranging and includes many of the nostrums advanced by Right Wing Republicans, including abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, slashing taxes for the wealthiest Americans and corporations, building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, further restricting abortion, increasing oil and gas production, maintaining a “biblically based” definition of marriage and family, and ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. 

But few of the project’s recommendations are as extreme as those dealing with America’s Unions and the Workers they represent.

For example, Project 2025 calls for banning Public Employee Unions - Unions representing Teachers, Librarians, Firefighters, Postal Workers, Police, Clerks, Trash Collectors and other Public Sector Workers.

As 32.5% of Public Sector Employees belong to Unions, they constitute the most highly Unionized portion of the American Workforce.

Thus, the abolition of their Unions would eliminate nearly half the Union Membership in the United States.

Nor would the rest of the Nation’s Union Members, composed of Private Sector Workers (only 6% of whom belong to Unions), fare much better under this Heritage Foundation scheme.

Most notably, Project 2025 advocates empowering States to ban Labor Unions.

Even partway through existing contracts, Unions could be terminated.

Furthermore, it would become illegal for employers to voluntarily recognize Unions, while businesses would be allowed to create their own sham Company Unions. 

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