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WI AFL-CIO: Project 2025 and Unions

Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Project 2025, an alarming 920-page document from a group of Donald Trump allies, reveals an anti-worker, anti-democracy blueprint for a second Trump administration. A CNN review found that over 140 people from the former Trump administration are involved in the project.

Project 2025 is composed of four parts: a policy guide for the administration, a database of loyalists who could serve in a Trump administration, training for loyalist personnel, and a set of actions to be taken within the first 180 days in office.

Project 2025 would have a disastrous negative impact on our wages, rights at work, and union contracts.

Project 2025 includes proposals to:

  • Make it easier for employers to get rid of workers’ unions in the middle of our contracts [1].
  • Ban public employee unions [2].
  • End Project Labor Agreements and Prevailing Wage requirements [3].
  • Allow states to ban labor unions, eliminate overtime protections [4], and choose not to follow the national minimum wage [5].
  • Eliminate the child labor rules that protect children from working in mines, meatpacking plants, and other dangerous workplaces [6].
  • Make it illegal for employers to voluntarily recognize unions [7].
  • Allow companies to create their own sham company unions [8].
  • Replace civil servants with political appointees loyal to Trump [9].
  • Cut funding for job training and employment assistance for workers whose jobs were sent overseas due to international trade [10].

The AFL-CIO has launched a website to expose the details of the Trump Project 2025 Agenda and how it relates to union members. Visit https://betterinaunion.org/project-2025 to learn more about this well-funded and extremist plan to upend our workplaces and overhaul our democratic institutions.

In Solidarity,

Stephanie Bloomingdale, President

Project 2025 is built on the austerity model of Wisconsin, funded and organized by the right-wing Milwaukee-based Bradley Foundation. / More info: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement