Just one minute before the White House distributed via email a new executive order further dismantling collective bargaining protections for U.S. federal workers, President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor made another, somewhat surprising announcement.
The DOL in a Thursday press release sent at 4:01 p.m. announced it would be investigating whether workers at a slaughterhouse and meat distribution plant in Mexico “are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining” under a trade agreement labor provision. By 4:02 p.m., another administration email came: The White House was sharing Trump’s just-signed executive order adding six more agencies to the list of federal departments whose workers were being forced to terminate their unions.
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“I think contradictory approach is a good way to put it,” said Josh Boxerman, government affairs manager at the National Employment Law Project. “There’s a lot of bluster coming from [Trump] about how much he cares about workers, but when you actually look at the actions of his administration, it’s exactly the opposite.”
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