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How Project 2025 could harm you
Those who are behind the Project 2025 policy document want to eliminate public-sector unions, cut public jobs, eliminate federal funding for public schools and give tax breaks to
corporations and the wealthy.
These proposals are just a few items
included in Project 2025, a more than 800-page policy document developed by the Heritage Foundation, a far-right think
tank. The document is intended to be a policy blueprint for the next Republican administration.
Here are some of the proposals that concern CSEA.
Cut public jobs
Eliminate public-sector unions
Weaken worker protections
The Project 2025 document openly calls for Congress to eliminate public-sector unions, saying, “Congress should consider whether public-sector unions are appropriate in the first place.”
Those who developed the document also support ending release time to conduct union business, which would take away our ability to run our union!
Project 2025 calls for allowing states and local governments to waive federal labor laws, including the National Labor Relations Act and Fair Standards Labor Act. The FSLA sets the minimum wage, the eight-hour workday, child labor standards, and regulates overtime pay.
The policies outlined in Project 2025 would be disastrous for the public sector workforce. The document calls for layoffs, outsourcing public sector work to contractors and for a federal-government-wide hiring freeze.
The document’s authors also believe that public employees are overpaid and receive benefits that are too generous, calling for a cut to both. The document also proposes ending seniority rights in layoffs, which would allow management to choose who should be laid off.
Reproductive rights
Cut corporate taxes
Schools at stake
Project 2025’s authors want to eliminate federal spending on education and divert tax dollars to private schools, which would create huge deficits for school districts across the country.
Those who developed Project 2025 also seeks to curtail reproductive rights, including cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, denying access to certain drugs and criminalizing the distribution of them!
Those who developed Project 2025 want
to further fill the wallets of already-wealthy people by reducing corporate taxes by nearly $30 billion!
Learn more
To learn more, visit cseany.org/vote to download fliers that highlight these and other concerning proposals in Project 2025. You can also contact your region’s political action coordinator. Read the full Project 2025 proposal at: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf.
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