How Trump's Impact On Labor Rights Could Be 'Potentially Catastrophic'
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In a second presidency, Donald Trump could try to debilitate the National Labor Relations Board, if judges he appointed in his first term don't do it on their own.
Brian Petruska can’t help but sound alarmed by the possibility of another Donald Trump presidency. He’s still witnessing the legal fallout from Trump’s first term.
“We’re looking at going back to pre-1930s labor law in this country,” Petruska, a lawyer for the Laborers’ International Union of North America, told HuffPost. “I’m not exaggerating. That’s literally what’s happening.”
Petruska was referring to efforts by employers — including Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a surrogate for Trump amid his 2024 White House bid — to wreck the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency established in 1935 that enforces collective bargaining rights.
Corporations like Musk’s SpaceX are challenging the constitutionality of the NLRB’s structure to defend themselves against charges of unfair labor practices. Some Trump-appointed judges have already shown they’re receptive to the companies’ argument, and the question could end up before the Supreme Court, where a conservative supermajority shaped by Trump would decide the board’s fate.
The way Petruska sees it, another four years under Trump would only bring more attacks on workers’ rights, and more judges willing to rule in corporations’ favor.
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