PUTTING WORKERS FIRST?

Who are the Trump Administration & Congress (really) fighting for?
"Every decision . . . will be made to benefit American workers."
- President Trump, Inaugural Address, Jan 20, 2017
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Week 18
May 23, 2017

Working families suffer under Trump administration’s parental leave proposal.

  • President's plan limits families to a meager six weeks of parental leave to care for a newborn or adopted baby, while placing additional stress on an already weakened unemployment insurance safety net.
  • To impose these exceedingly limited UI benefits on a new parental leave program would leave millions of vulnerable families out in the cold, without unemployment insurance or real paid leave benefits.
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Paid Leave
Week 17
May 21, 2017

Trump administration’s proposed budget puts low-wage workers last.

  • President proposes a budget slashing work supports like health care while paving the way for arbitrary or even punitive work requirements that don't actually help job seekers.
  • The proposed budget includes $800 million in cuts to Medicaid, along with $193 million cut to SNAP over the next 10 years.
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Benefits, Budget, DHHS, Legislation, USDA
May 18, 2017

Trump administration makes it harder for workers to save for retirement.

  • President signs resolutions overturning two labor department rules confirming that states and cities, respectively, may create investment vehicles for workers to save for retirement when their employers don't offer retirement savings plans.
  • States and cities interested in creating options for workers seeing to save for retirement have an important pathway questioned by the federal government.
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DOL, Retirement
Week 16
May 13, 2017

MSHA delays examination of working places rule

  • MSHA has delayed the effective date of its “examination of Working places in Metal and non-Metal Mines” rule  from May 2017 to October 2017.
  • The rule requires the examination of working places in mines before miners begin work. The delay means that miners are at a heightened risk of injury from undetected poor conditions.
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DOL, Health and Safety
Week 11
Apr 07, 2017

Trump administration delays enforcement of key protections for retirement savers

  • DOL delays applicability of the Fiduciary Rule and best Interest Contract Exemption till June 9 2017 and all requirements in the Best Interest Contract exemption, except the Impartial Conduct Standards, till January 1 2018
  • The 60 day delay will cost retirement savers 3.7 billion dollars ovr 30 years.
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DOL, Fiduciary Rule
Apr 06, 2017

OSHA delayed enforcement of the silica standard.

  • DOL puts industry interests ahead of worker safety when it comes to exposure to crystalline silica.
  • This delay puts construction workers at risk of exposure to silica, a hazardous material that could lead to silicosis, a fatal and incurable lung disease.
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DOL, Health and Safety, OSHA
Week 10
Mar 29, 2017

EPA rejects ban on the use of chlorpyrifos, an agricultural pesticide linked to development problems in children.

  • EPA rejects its own scientists' recommendation to ban chlorpyrifos, which is an agricultural pesticide linked to the damaging of the neurological development of children.
  • Children working in agriculture will be exposed to additional pesticides that could damage their neurological development.
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Agriculture, EPA, Health and Safety
Mar 28, 2017

Trump administration allows companies with history of workplace violations to receive federal contracts.

  • President signs a repeal of an Obama-era protection that barred large contractors with repeated violations of workplace laws from receiving federal contracts, and that provided important paycheck transparency to workers on federal contracts.
  • Taxpayer money continues to fund contractors with a documented history of exposing their workers to wage theft, unsafe working conditions, discrimination and harassment, putting responsible employers at a disadvantage, not to mention keeping some employees in the dark in terms of their pay.
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DOL, Federal Contracting
Week 8
Mar 17, 2017

The Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposed to cut funding for economic development across coal country.

  • Trump budget belies the President's pledge to support coal country.
  • If enacted, the Trump budget would impact economic development in the very communities that he has pledged to improve.
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Budget
Week 6
Mar 02, 2017

Trump Administration seeks to extend the applicability of the Fiduciary Rule and the  Best Interest Contract Exemptions by 2 months.

  • DOL seeks to delay the effective date of the Fiduciary Rule, a common sense rule that requires investment advisors to act in the best interest of their clients and the contract exemptions which requires advisors to enter into certain contractual obligations if they provide certain kinds of conflicted advice.
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DOL, Fiduciary Rule
Week 5
Feb 21, 2017

Trump administration scraps a rule mandating that employers keep accurate records of work-related injuries.

  • President signs a resolution making it harder for OSHA to enforce the requirement that employers must kept accurate records of work-related injuries and illnesses for at least five years.
  • OSHA has only 6 months to pursue a claim that an employer has not kept accurate records, even though the law requires those records to be kept for 5 years - which makes it harder to protect workers' health and safety on the job.
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DOL, Health and Safety, OSHA
Week 4
Feb 13, 2017

Trump administration threatens the hard-earned retirement benefits of workers.

  • Trump Orders DOL to reconsider the Fiduciary Rule; a commonsense rule that requires retirement advisors to act in the best interests of their clients.
  • The Labor department estimated that the delay could cost investors $147 million in the first year, and $890 million over 10 years, in front-load mutual funds alone.
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DOL, Fiduciary Rule
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