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ROB CALLAHAN: Why Government Actions Could Spell Big Trouble for Organized Labor

This column was initially conceived of as an examination of the various labor-related initiatives in Project 2025. I’d intended to recap some of the ways the Trump administration attacked the labor movement in its first year, and also to predict some of the assaults unions can anticipate in the second. But as I write this, screens all over the country continue to play on an endless, agonizing loop the frame-by-frame slo-mo cellphone footage of good Samaritans (one of them a member of AFGE Local 3669) suffering extrajudicial execution at the hands of masked secret police on the streets of Minneapolis.

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