Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports according to the 2025 Global Rights Index released by the International Trade Union Confederation, the largest Trade Union Federation in the world, Workers’ rights across every continent in the world are in a “freefall.” The index noted Workers’ rights and Democracy around the world are often under attack by “Far-Right politicians and their unelected billionaire backers. Whether it’s Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the U.S. or Javier Milei and Eduardo Eurnekian in Argentina, we see the same playbook of unfairness and authoritarianism in action around the world.” In the U.S., the index cited “the Trump Administration has taken a wrecking ball to the collective Labor Rights of Workers and brought Anti-Union billionaires into the heart of policymaking.” These actions, according to the index, include stripping Union protections from 47,000 Workers at the Transportation Security Administration, attempting to revoke Civil Service protections for large swaths of Federal Employees and firing a member of the National Labor Relations Board, leaving it without a quorum. International Trade Union Confederation Secretary General Luc Triangle said the report covers events up until March 2025, but these trends have continued to worsen in the U.S. since then.

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