Trump And Vance Disrespect Workers On Labor Day

It speaks volumes that Donald Trump and JD Vance have no campaign events scheduled for Labor Day as Kamala Harris visits two swing states.

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The majority of Americans know that Republicans don’t respect the rights of workers. As president, Donald Trump was perhaps the most anti-worker president since the New Deal, but we are in the midst of an election campaign, so Politics 101 says that Trump advance would normally show up in a swing state or two, mouth some words about workers, and then hop back into their private planes and go home.

However, here is the campaign schedule for both of the tickets in this election:

Kamala Harris: Detriot, Michigan at 1:15 PM ET and then a 4:45 PM ET event in Pittsburgh, PA with President Biden. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will be campaigning in Virginia.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump is at his private club, and JD Vance has no events scheduled.

Labor Day is the traditional kickoff to the fall campaign. Donald Trump and JD Vance are taking it off.

Besides the obvious laziness in play from the Trump campaign, there is also a clear disrespect for workers that was highlighted by Trump’s actions while he was president.

As President, Trump Tried To Allow Employers To Steal The Tips Of Workers

Donald Trump promotes no tax on tips as his promise to workers, but his real stance on workers can be found in his record as president.

Donald Trump rolled back the Obama administration’s overtime rules and made 8.2 million workers ineligible for overtime pay. Trump stacked the National Labor Relations Board with people hostile to collective bargaining who then issued a series of rules that made it more difficult for workers to organize.

Trump used his presidency to make sure that workers were paid less and faced more hurdles to organizing, but if there is one action that stands out above all of the others, it is how Trump tried to change tipping.