Crystal Lewis at The Chief Leader reports since the start of his second term, President Donald Trump has issued several Executive Orders that closely align with proposals outlined in Project 2025, raising fears in some quarters about the impact of these policies on Workers, particularly those in the Public Sector.

The establishment of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - as well as Trump’s appointment of billionaire Elon Musk to head the agency, along with the elimination of Federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Programs, and the Administration’s buyout offers to Employees have been viewed by many as an attack on the Federal Workforce.

Labor and Policy Experts discussed the threats to Organized Labor, as well as the role Unions will play to counter these attacks, during a panel hosted by the City of New York’s (CUNY) School of Labor and Urban Studies.

Diana Reddy, an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley Law, said the policies outlined in Project 2025 present “real danger for Labor.” 

“Project (2025) says, ‘We don’t want to antagonize Labor’s core interests,’ but they want to get rid of ‘Wokism’ in Unions and challenge what they see as this encroaching of core interests on other Social Justice issues,” she said during the panel.

“They’re very much talking about dividing the Working Class, and particularly appealing to underlying divisions within the working class on race, gender, LGBTQ-plus issues and so forth,” Reddy said.

One proposal would weaken the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) ability to prosecute employers for violating Labor Laws.

Reddy argued some policies - including the Schedule F Executive Order issued during Trump’s first term in 2020 that intended to reclassify some Federal Employees and eliminating their Collective Bargaining Protections - were directly aimed at hurting Public Sector Unions. 

“So far, some of the organizations that have filed the most lawsuits are Unions - AFGE (American Federation of Government Unions), AFSCME (American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees) - they’re there trying to keep track on him, and so I think it’s important to see this as partly a fight against Public Sector Labor Unions,” she noted.

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