“Taken together with the assault on federal workers that have stripped collective bargaining rights for nearly half a million federal workers, 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,” said NNU President Mary Turner, RN.
The new DOL regulations issued in June and July would abandon anti-discrimination civil rights law and equal opportunity protections for workers of federal contractors, eviscerate disability worker rights, overturn groundbreaking worker and union rights for temporary farm workers established by the Biden administration, and gut basic employment rights for home care workers.
“We’re experiencing a direct attempt to overturn the most basic labor rights for American workers as a protection against the predatory behavior of rapacious employers dating back to the landmark National Labor Relations Act of 1935, and substantial gains made to expand those fundamental rights to all workers in our nation.
“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. America’s nurses will join with other labor and community organizations to defend our most consequential working-class rights,” said Turner.
Civil rights and equality - Rescission of Executive Order 11246
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