Mike Lawler pulled a wrench out of his tool kit for Labor Day.
Let’s reflect on the progress made:
- Trump issued executive orders in March and August taking collective bargaining rights away from nearly half a million federal workers. Although Lawler co-sponsored bipartisan legislation to counter this move, it has gone nowhere, and Lawler has done nothing to champion the cause (other than wish the workers a Happy Labor Day).
- Lawler helped pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut social safety net programs while providing massive tax cuts to the wealthy.
- Trump has cut minimum wage protections for millions of federal contractors, disabled and domestic workers.
- Trump has gutted the National Labor Relations Board, firing its chairman, leaving it powerless to decide cases protecting workers under the National Labor Relations Act.
- When Trump didn’t like the job numbers, he fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner.
- And more. See ‘He’s brazenly anti-worker’: US marks the first Labor Day under Trump 2.0; Trump administration has proven no friend to organized labor; How Trump is decimating federal employee unions one step at a time.
Without shame, the Department of Labor celebrated along with Lawler:
And of course, there’s the huge banner of dear leader’s face on the front of the Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C. (see above). Just brand it, and maybe they’ll buy the goods.
All of this inspired a recent visit to the Hudson Valley by the President of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of labor unions, to call out Mike Lawler by name for harming working people.
The AFL-CIO gave Mike Lawler a score of 10% in its most recent scorecard for his votes against workers.
So take Mike Lawler’s Labor Day post at face value. Congress is a wrench in the works, and Mike Lawler is a tool.
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