Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the Trump administration is planning to cut the pay of some of America’s lowest-paid Workers: The Nation’s 4.348 million Home Health Care Workers. The pay cut, dragging wages back to levels of more than a decade ago, comes in planned Federal rules Trump’s Labor Department (USDOL) published at the beginning of this month. It outrages both National Nurses United (NNU) and the National Employment Law Project (NELP). It’s just one of a package of Anti-Worker rules Trump Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer unveiled in the Federal Register, NNU adds. Another USDOL rule would strip the DOL Office of Federal Contract Compliance of its power to ensure Federal contractors and subcontractors obey Civil Rights Laws, making it advisory only. “It should not be lost on anyone that eliminating these essential protections and voice for Workers and Unions has long been one of the first acts of dictatorships over the last century,” NNU President Mary Turner, a Registered Nurse herself, said. “These repressive regulatory changes reinforce the sweeping handouts to the corporate class under President Trump. The overall impact fully brands Trump’s Administration as the most hostile to Working People in a century,” Turner added. “America’s Nurses will join with other Labor and Community Organizations to defend our most consequential Working-Class Rights.” The rollback of all the rules would upend 60 years of fighting “Jim Crow segregation discrimination against Black and other Workers of Color, and other discrimination based on gender, national origin and other protected classes of Workers,” the NNU says. 

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