Ph.D., former CEO & Distinguished Research Professor at SchoolMatch Institute - University of Dayton (2001-2018)
from PROGRESS REPORT: “Tonight we have our second piece on Project 2025, the far-right’s plan to mount a hostile takeover of the United States government. There’s been a real uptick in national attention on the plan, but it’s mostly focused on the politicization of the civil service and the usual issues that the Biden campaign tends to tout. But Project 2025 is less a political document than a detailed instruction manual for a top-to-bottom Christofascist takeover of government and American society, each step designed to impose a depraved ideology or punish some segment of the populace. This new series digs into the buried elements of Project 2025 that would have a direct, outsized impact on working people. This is Part I and Part II of our newly-completed deep dive into the plan’s assault on labor rights and working class people. Please share it with everybody you can. Source: https://lnkd.in/ejcMjGQm
Reydel Santos
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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ph.D., former CEO & Distinguished Research Professor at SchoolMatch Institute - University of Dayton (2001-2018)
5moMORE: How Project 2025 would screw workers: A full review By and large, Project 2025’s vision for workers’ rights is exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing think tank funded by conservative billionaires. It’s got it all: attacks on union organizing, the dismantling of regulations guiding workplace safety, and an injection of the latest culture war terms and bigotries into the attempts to rollback civil rights at work. Like much of the rest of Project 2025, each section of the chapter on labor is heavy on technical jargon and frequently references specialized rules and the administrative law cases that produced them. It’s niche stuff, but it also impacts a vast majority of Americans. Exploitation and endangerment Frustrated by the leverage that workers held after the first year of the pandemic and desperate to avoid having to pay significantly higher wages, corporate America and its lobbyists went on the offensive to restore imbalance to the job market. Lobbyists first convinced Republican-controlled states to curtail extended unemployment benefits, then business owners began attempting to undercut returning workers by hiring children in low-wage and dangerous jobs. Industry groups were successful in convincing a number…”