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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Steven Greenhouse

‘He’s brazenly anti-worker’: US marks the first Labor Day under Trump 2.0

Woman holds a sign with a US flag that says
A rally in support of federal workers at the office of personnel management in Washington DC, on 4 March 2025. Photograph: Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images

For this Labor Day, the Donald Trump administration has draped an enormous banner outside the US labor department with his portrait and the words “American Workers First.”

Trump was elected on promises, since repeatedly pledged, that he would fight for workers and forgotten Americans. But many labor advocates say that Trump has consistently put corporate interests first in his second term as he has taken dozens of actions that hurt workers, often by cutting their pay or making their jobs more dangerous.

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