Nick Romeo at Capital & Main reports on what a second Trump Administration would look like for Workers’ rights.  Writes Romeo: From underfunding agencies to challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a second Trump term could create a seismic change in how Government protects Workers.  Perhaps the strongest indication of how Workers seeking to organize would fare under a second Trump Administration is the former chief executive’s record during his first administration.  During Trump’s term, the NLRB - a quasi-judicial body with up to five members appointed by the President - acted on all 10 items in a 2017 Corporate Wishlist from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, according to a report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a Non-Profit Non-Partisan Think Tank.  The decisions made it easier for employers to fire or discipline Employees, weakened rules to streamline Union Elections and restricted where and how Workers can discuss workplace issues.  The Trump Board also proposed a rule that would have excluded Graduate Students from the category of Employees.  Under current Board Chair Lauren McFerran, a Biden appointee, the proposed rule was withdrawn, protecting the right of Student Workers to organize.  Since 2022, more than 44,000 Student Workers across the country have formed Unions. “It’s certainly possible that they would resurrect that effort and try to take Collective Bargaining Rights away from Graduate Students,” said Sharon Block, Professor Of Practice and Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and an NLRB Member under President Barack Obama.

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