Trump’s Return
What Trump Can Do to Workers’ Biden-Era Gains
The landmark labor wins of the past few years are vulnerable to a hostile government. American workers will have to fight even harder.
Donald Trump on his way to address Teamsters members at the union’s Washington, DC, headquarters in January.
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For American labor, which has been embattled for decades but invigorated over the past few years, Donald Trump’s big win is a body blow.
During Joe Biden’s presidency, workers have racked up victories that would have been unimaginable just a few years earlier. Historic union contracts with the Big Three automakers, Hollywood studios, UPS and Boeing. Unions freshly established at Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Chipotle and Starbucks.