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Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-20): Aside from eliminating the department, the project also proposes scrapping the Biden administration’s Title IX revision, which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It also would let states opt out of federal education programs and calls for passing a federal parents’ bill of rights similar to ones passed in some Republican-led state legislatures. Republicans, including Trump, have pledged to close the department, which gained its status in 1979 within Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s presidential Cabinet. In one of his Agenda 47 policy videos, Trump promised to close the department and "to send all education work and needs back to the states." Eliminating the department would have to go through Congress. What Project 2025, Trump would do on overtime pay In the graphic, the Harris campaign says Project 2025 allows "employers to stop paying workers for overtime work." The plan doesn’t call for banning overtime wages. It recommends changes to some Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, regulations and to overtime rules. Some changes, if enacted, could result in some people losing overtime protections, experts told us.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-12): From attacking overtime pay, student loans, and reproductive rights, to allowing more discrimination, pollution, and price gouging, those behind Project 2025 are preparing to go to incredible lengths to create a country only for some, not for all of us. If these plans are enacted, which Project 2025’s authors claim can happen without congressional approval, 4.3 million people could lose overtime protections, 40 million people could have their food assistance reduced, 220,000 American jobs could be lost, and much, much, more. The stakes are higher than ever for democracy and for people. [...] Project 2025 is a radical playbook that presents a profound threat to the American people, our freedoms, and our democracy. Join us to expose this effort by far-right extremists and fight back.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2023-09-10): What if Biden doesn’t win? No matter who the Republican nominee is, as always happens in Republican administrations, the NLRB will be flipped back into an agency that works to crush worker power, rather than to bolster it. In this election, though, we don’t have to guess about what the Republicans want to do—they have compiled and released a handy plan that tells us. That 920-page plan is "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise," a top-to-bottom list of policy priorities for every federal agency published by the Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project, representing a who’s who of right wing establishment groups like the Heritage Foundation, ALEC, the Family Research Council, Turning Point USA, and others.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-04-25): The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such as domestic workers and agricultural workers, are excluded. Now the right wing has its sights set on stripping away those rights won by more than a hundred years of hard organizing and bloody battles. Project 2025’s "Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise" spells out just how they would do it. [...] The Project 2025 report’s chapter on the Labor Department contains a few items that sound appealing, such as overtime pay for Sunday work—but the plan aims to undermine labor unions and independent worker power, and hand employers more control over their workforce. Even the positive elements are primarily in the service of a Christian nationalist agenda, aimed at bolstering a male-head-of-household, stay-at-home mother family. Project 2025 would make it easier for employers to set up company unions, and to misclassify workers as independent contractors. It would provide more government resources to investigate unions and worker centers, but sap agencies charged with enforcing workers’ safety and rights.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-07): Right-wing media have long railed against rules requiring corporations to pay overtime to workers for work done in excess of regular working hours. Project 2025 reflects this fixation, pushing for regulations and laws that would roll back overtime pay requirements. A survey has shown that this is wildly out of step with the sentiment of the American public. [...] The radical anti-labor agenda from Project 2025 -- led by conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation -- calls for allowing employers to eviscerate overtime regulations and potentially withhold pay. [...] Project 2025 further recommends that workers and bosses agree to extend the overtime threshold from one week to a period of two weeks or one month. The likely outcome would be management overloading busy weeks with extra-long shifts and taking advantage of slow periods through under-scheduling — effectively eliminating overtime altogether. Relatedly, another attack on overtime comes in the form of allowing workers to negotiate away time-and-a-half pay in exchange for noncompensation benefits like "predictable scheduling." In effect, this incentivizes predatory scheduling to coerce workers to give up overtime.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-15): The plan is detailed in a blueprint called Project 2025, organized by the far-right Heritage Foundation, and backed by over 100 conservative organizations. [...] "Project 2025 will take away freedoms and rights from every American, will hurt the middle class and working families, and is a threat to our democracy," said AFGE President Everett Kelley. "It’s a takeover of our federal government in a manner that is not loyal to the Constitution and the law, has no interest in listening to the people, and will force employees to take orders, legal or not, or be terminated." [...] Here are the highlights – or rather lowlights – of Project 2025 to help you understand how these plans would undermine national security, destroy democracy, and take away our rights:
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-08-24): The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, is an ambitious manifesto to redesign the federal government and its many administrative agencies to support and sustain neo-conservative dominance for the next decade. One of the agencies in its crosshairs is the Department of Labor, as well as its affiliated agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Project 2025 proposes a remake of the Department of Labor in order to roll back decades of labor laws and rights amidst a nostalgic "back to the future" framing based on race, gender, religion and anti-abortion sentiment. But oddly, tucked into the corners of the document are some real nuggets of innovative and progressive thinking that propose certain labor rights which even many liberals have never dared to propose. [...] Project 2025 advocates that Congress pass legislation allowing waivers for states and local governments to escape from enforcement of crucial federal labor laws, like the foundational Fair Labor Standards Act (which bestows the right to a minimum wage and time-and-a-half for overtime pay, and prohibits employment of minors in oppressive child labor) and the National Labor Relations Act that guarantees the right of workers to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining and take collective action such as strikes. This provision alone would enact an ominous, far-reaching threat to eviscerate the most important labor laws of the past 75 years.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-10-04): The Trump Project 2025 agenda would drastically change working conditions for workers in the building trades sector. Trump would repeal the requirements for federally funded projects to have Project Labor Agreements (PLAs) leading to lower pay and more safety risks for workers. Trump has also previously stated publicly that he supports the repeal of the Davis-Bacon Act, the law which requires construction companies to pay the prevailing wage. Further threatening worker’s wages, Trump has stated publicly that if elected, he would eliminate overtime pay after 40 hours a week. "I hated to give overtime," said Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. "I’d get other people, and I wouldn’t pay." [...] The Trump Project 2025 Agenda would impact the working conditions for workers in the building trades sector by repealing the Davis-Bacon Act, and eliminating PLAs and overtime pay. Trump has stated publicly that if elected, he would eliminate overtime pay after 40 hours a week. "I hated to give overtime," said Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. "I’d get other people, and I wouldn’t pay." [...] Endangering workers, Project 2025 would allow small businesses to violate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) worker safety laws. Further impacting workers’ rights, Project 2025 would allow corporations to get rid of a union even while workers are in the middle of a signed union contract.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2023-08-01): The 37-page chapter on the Department of Labor and related agencies has received hardly any attention. It reveals just how little recent Republican posturing about becoming a pro-worker party is translating into policy, despite Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and others aligning themselves with a New Right that occasionally says nice things about union drives. The Project 2025 labor agenda is the same-old union-busting, with a bit more anti-woke, pro-Christian rhetoric. [...] At the same time, the plan would make it harder to form traditional unions. Project 2025 asks Congress to ban card check, the process by which a union can be established if a majority of employees sign cards in favor of unionization and an employer voluntarily recognizes the union. In 2016, the Obama Labor Department issued a rule that required employers and consultants to disclose anti-union activity. Trump’s DOL repealed the rule; Project 2025 preemptively asks the DOL to re-repeal it if the Biden administration reinstates it. [...] Throughout, the plan is heavy on policing that flows in one direction. Berry calls for investigating worker centers, and increasing funding for the Labor office that monitors union finances, but cutting the department’s overall budget. Project 2025 calls for the Occupational Health and Safety Administration to get no new power or funding.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-16): The Trump Project 2025 agenda would let small businesses violate OSHA worker safety laws without punishment. [...] The Trump Project 2025 agenda would eliminate overtime pay guarantees, resulting in less pay for workers. [...] The Trump Project 2025 agenda would let small businesses violate OSHA worker safety laws, instead letting them corner a market and raise prices on working people.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-09-27): While the Biden-Harris administration increased the salary threshold for eligibility to a very modest $43,888, the authoritarian playbook known as Project 2025 proposes decreasing access and giving employers more power to exclude their employees. Project 2025’s far-right vision of overtime eligibility and benefits is designed to confuse and disempower workers. It would put more power in the hands of employers to exploit employees, which is seemingly part of Project 2025’s larger goal: pad corporate bottom lines at the expense of workers. [...] Jenn Round noted to PolitiFact that Project 2025 could be read as proposing different overtime thresholds in different parts of the country, and it’s not clear how many workers that would affect given that Project 2025 does not include details on which regions would be considered "low cost." Notably, framing the South, in particular, as "low cost" is misleading; and the Economic Policy Institute debunks the premise of "lower-cost regions" as Project 2025’s justification for lower wages. Adjusting each state’s median annual wages for cost of living, workers in the South are still paid less than other workers. Project 2025 contends that millions fewer workers should get overtime pay
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2023-09-18): As the 2024 presidential election begins to cast its shadow over the American political landscape, leading Republican figures have renewed their efforts to present themselves as tribunes of the working class. These so-called "populist" Republicans tend to offer much in the way of extolling supposed working-class culture and ventilating perceived working-class grievances but few, if any, specific policy prescriptions to materially advance working-class interests. Last month, however, the Heritage Foundation sought to fill that void by releasing a comprehensive manifesto, dubbed Project 2025, designed to serve as a policy blueprint for the next Republican administration. The report, spanning nearly a thousand pages, is sweeping, the product of collaboration among hundreds of rightwing scholars and dozens of conservative thinktanks. The project contains a chapter outlining numerous proposals for labor-related legislative action from Congress and regulatory action from the DOL, EEOC, and NLRB, all formulated with an apparent view to "restor[ing] the family-supporting job as the centerpiece of the American economy." While that underlying aspiration may be laudable enough, the proposals would in reality do little more than compound working people’s economic plight and undermine the very family-centric social vision they seek to foster.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-17): On page 592, the document lays out recommendations for changes to overtime pay regulations in the United States. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook proposes an "overtime pay threshold" that is not an abolishment of overtime pay. [...] Critics say Project 2025 erodes overtime pay Liberal advocacy organization Democracy Forward created "The People’s Guide to Project 2025," which says "4.3 million people could lose overtime protections" if the governing agenda is enacted.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Project 2025: Eliminate Unions [...] Then Project 2025 foresees reclassifying thousands of civil service employees by executive order so they can be fired and replaced with the corporations’ loyal troops. [...] Project 2025 wants to take this nightmare nationwide.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-08): Although several Trump administration officials contributed to the document, former president Trump has claimed to know nothing about it. Every American should understand Project 2025 and its potential long-term impacts. This article explores three major shifts that the authoritarian playbook will cause in the American workplace if implemented. [...] The Project 2025 playbook calls for a complete gutting of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in the workplace, stating the need for a reversal of the "DEI Revolution in Labor Policy," and insisting that the next conservative Administration "eliminate every one of these wrongful and burdensome ideological projects." [...] Project 2025 wants to dismantle workers’ rights to organize via unions and proposes that employees instead be provided a less powerful alternative called "employee involvement organizations." Unions play a vital role in empowering workers and ensuring that employees are treated and paid equitably— limiting their power or getting rid of unions altogether would ultimately harm workers.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Have you heard of Project 2025? Project 2025 is a 920-page blueprint for a second Trump administration created by the virulently anti-labor Heritage Foundation and 140 former Trump administration officials, including six of his cabinet secretaries, to remake government to serve the interests of corporations over the working class. [...] The Trump Project 2025 agenda would do away with overtime pay guarantees and allow employers to instead give employees time off for their overtime work—the employer controls when—resulting in less pay and no new flexibility in schedules. [...] The Trump Project 2025 agenda will let small businesses violate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) worker safety laws without punishment, no matter what deaths or injuries were caused by their negligence or recklessness.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-11): Over the last week, there has been growing online discourse surrounding Project 2025, a collection of conservative policy recommendations published by the Heritage Foundation alongside a coalition of other conservative organizations. Heritage has released similar "Mandate for Leadership" reports for decades with the intent of shaping policy in Republican presidential administrations. Project 2025 is not directly affiliated with the GOP or Donald Trump, but it does feature contributions from many former Trump administration officials with close ties to the Republican nominee. [...] Many posts about Project 2025 present it as a dangerous and radical agenda that would implement policies to end Social Security, cut benefits for veterans, and even terminate the Constitution. One image about the project has become particularly widespread, appearing across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Reddit, and X and collectively garnering millions of collective views, likes, and shares. [...] The plan does not advocate for the elimination of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Overtime wages are also not eliminated. The plan does encourage adoption of the Working Families Flexibility Act, which would allow employees to choose between receiving either time-and-a-half pay or time-and-a-half time off for overtime hours worked, and also suggests that Congress should consider allowing businesses and employees to calculate overtime periods over a longer number of weeks. The plan also pitches an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act that would require employers to pay workers overtime wages for hours worked on Sundays or a different religious day of Sabbath.
Claim: "Project 2025 eliminates OSHA and overtime wages.” (Threads post, 2024-07-07)
Evidence (2024-07-19): Known as "Project 2025," this radical agenda, designed to be set in motion on Day One of a new Trump administration, was written by top Trump advisers. AFSCME research shows Project 2025 would hurt working people by: [...] What’s more, Project 2025 would also eviscerate Biden administration programs and policies that AFSCME members overwhelmingly support and fought for:
Claim: “We're having the largest classes of correctional officers we've ever had before.” (Tony Evers, 2024-02-11)
Evidence (2024-02-11): Wisconsin lawmakers passed a pay raise for corrections officers last year in hopes of fixing staffing shortages. The state Department of Corrections graduated its largest training class ever in February with 214 graduates. Prison staff vacancy rates have been trending down since they peaked at 35% in August.
Claim: “We're having the largest classes of correctional officers we've ever had before.” (Tony Evers, 2024-02-11)
Evidence (2023-12-01): Examining and mitigating correctional officer workplace stressors [...] In response to this finding, the Northeastern team is conducting the first long-term study of occupational stress, violence exposures, and psychological distress for a cohort of correctional officers. Officers taking part in the study graduated from the basic training course of the Massachusetts Department of Correction (MADOC) between 2020 and 2023. [...] The researchers initially conducted approximately 250 interviews of new correctional officers who completed MADOC’s basic training course from 2020 through the end of July 2023. Key early findings, summarized in Frost’s panel presentation, include:
Claim: “We're having the largest classes of correctional officers we've ever had before.” (Tony Evers, 2024-02-11)
Evidence (2013-08-22): The findings, from the largest-ever meta-analysis of correctional educational studies, suggest that prison education programs are cost effective, with a $1 investment in prison education reducing incarceration costs by $4 to $5 during the first three years post-release.
Claim: “We're having the largest classes of correctional officers we've ever had before.” (Tony Evers, 2024-02-11)
Evidence (2023-11-22): Finally, recruitment challenges have plagued the correctional profession for many years. The pandemic has further stymied these efforts. Not only have we lost hundreds of brave men and women to the virus, but it is also far less likely that qualified candidates will be beating down the doors of our human resources departments to join our ranks. The only silver lining to this cloud may be that correctional staff finally get the long-deserved recognition for the admirable jobs they do and the daily risks they face. Let’s hope that our legislators and other funding entities are paying attention. [...] Throughout the past year, the mere act of reporting for work has been one of bravery at all ranks, but especially at the line level. Our jobs are tough enough to begin with. Add to the mix many experiencing the death of a coworker, constant concerns over being infected or carrying the coronavirus home to loved ones, staff shortages due to COVID-19 quarantines, longer hours and anti-criminal justice sentiment being played in the media and it should come as no surprise that correctional officers are more stressed than they have ever been. [...] Conclusion 2020 posed the most unique challenges in the history of our profession, yet we got through the year. This is a testament to the professionalism, sacrifice, bravery and commitment by those who toil in our nation’s jails and prisons. Without question, we demonstrated to the country what we have always known – that correctional personnel are some of the finest people on the planet. We learned much and will continue to rise above the challenges that face us in the coming year.