(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – President Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to champion U.S. Workers.

Shortly before Labor Day - last year, he said: “Every policy of the Trump Administration is designed to lift up the American Worker and “promote great-paying Blue-Collar jobs.”

But in the year since last Labor Day, Trump has taken many actions that have hurt U.S. Workers and Unions, with some Labor experts saying they have been stunned at how Anti-Worker Trump has been.

In the months after Trump returned to office, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cut workplace inspections by 20%, compared with Joe Biden’s last year in office.

Even though Trump campaigned as a champion of Coalminers, his Administration has repeatedly delayed implementation of a rule to limit silica dust, which has afflicted and killed many coalminers with black lung.

The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has urgently called for “immediate enforcement” of the stalled Silica Dust Rule.

With regard to wages, Workers haven’t been doing so well under Trump.

While the White House boasts wages have risen, the problem for Workers is that prices - pushed up by Trump’s tariffs and the Iran War - have risen faster than wages over the past year, helping fuel the affordability crisis.

In a move that will cut pay for many low-wage Workers, the Trump Administration has proposed eliminating Federal Minimum Wage and Overtime protections for three million often low-paid Homecare Workers who take care of seniors and the disabled.

Despite several court rulings to slow or stop this Anti-Union effort, Trump has pushed aggressively ahead with his unprecedented campaign to strip one million Federal Employees of their ability to bargain collectively - a move Liz Shuler, who serves as President of the National AFL-CIO, the Nation’s main Labor Federation, called “the largest single act of Union-Busting in our history”.

Trump has moved to end collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of Workers at the Transportation Security Agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency and other Federal Agencies.

“Trump’s actions make him by far the most Anti-Union President in our modern history,” Sara Nelson, the President of the Association of Flight Attendants and a leading progressive voice in the Labor Movement, said in an interview. “His Administration has been massively Anti-Worker, Anti-Union and Anti-Working Class.”

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