Here are 6 different ways Republicans are trying to disempower workers this May Day
Happy May Day to everyone but Mitch McConnell. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images If America’s essential workers could retire on unctuous praise, they’d have no more need for 401s. Over the past two months, politicians in both parties have showered America’s doctors, nurses, grocery-store workers, and delivery drivers in expressions of gratitude.
Nevertheless, days after that Missouri judge’s ruling, Trump signed an executive order effectively barring state governments from shutting down meatpacking plants for violating safety standards. Invoking the Defense Production Act, the president declared that such facilities were critical to the nation’s food supply and thus cannot be shuttered for any reason.
Of course, if the GOP leaders’ genuine concern is that frivolous lawsuits will impede recovery while enriching trial lawyers, some compromise could surely be reached. After all, as tools for safeguarding workers’ rights, liability litigation is a poor substitute for a strong trade union.
“I promise you, over our dead bodies will this get reauthorized,” Graham said. “The goal is to help people who are unemployed — to make sure that if they get unemployed, they’ll have their income intact — but it was never our goal to pay people more to be out of work than at work … if a person is making $23 an hour on unemployment, it’s going to be hard to get you to go back to work for a $17-hour job.
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