RandomGuy
08-19-2019, 02:26 PM
The general incompetence and hyper-ideological Trump appointees are doing the normal conservative anti-union thing, and going after former allies.
Whoopsies.
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A powerful union group uneasy about a Labor Department apprenticeship proposal has "the potential to be a significant force in the 2020 election."
One of the nation’s largest labor groups embraced Donald Trump at the start of his presidency, in hopes he would create construction jobs and retreat from proposals that might reduce workers’ wages.
But now the two sides are on the brink of war, endangering a key bloc of Trump’s support in Midwestern swing states in 2020.
At issue is a deal gone bad between Trump and North America’s Building Trades Unions over a Labor Department apprenticeship initiative, the politics of which have grown more complicated since last month’s ouster of Secretary Alexander Acosta. Leaders of the union federation worry that the final version will undermine their own job-training programs and create a supply of cheap labor for developers, undercutting high-skilled construction workers who rely on prevailing-wage jobs to make ends meet.
“It’s an existential threat to the Building Trades,” said a former administration official with knowledge of the discussions. And it has the powerful group — a union federation that represents millions of construction workers across the U.S. — seeing early signs of a member-driven revolt against Trump in 2020.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/16/trump-jobs-construction-workers-1653450
Whoopsies.
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A powerful union group uneasy about a Labor Department apprenticeship proposal has "the potential to be a significant force in the 2020 election."
One of the nation’s largest labor groups embraced Donald Trump at the start of his presidency, in hopes he would create construction jobs and retreat from proposals that might reduce workers’ wages.
But now the two sides are on the brink of war, endangering a key bloc of Trump’s support in Midwestern swing states in 2020.
At issue is a deal gone bad between Trump and North America’s Building Trades Unions over a Labor Department apprenticeship initiative, the politics of which have grown more complicated since last month’s ouster of Secretary Alexander Acosta. Leaders of the union federation worry that the final version will undermine their own job-training programs and create a supply of cheap labor for developers, undercutting high-skilled construction workers who rely on prevailing-wage jobs to make ends meet.
“It’s an existential threat to the Building Trades,” said a former administration official with knowledge of the discussions. And it has the powerful group — a union federation that represents millions of construction workers across the U.S. — seeing early signs of a member-driven revolt against Trump in 2020.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/16/trump-jobs-construction-workers-1653450