Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Statement on Trump’s Rollback of Labor Protections on Federal Projects

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Mark Pocan (WI-02), Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Steven Horsford (NV-04), and Donald Norcross (NJ-01) released the following statement on Trump’s rollback of executive orders that promote labor standards on federal projects:

“It’s simple: workers on federally funded projects deserve livable wages and safe working conditions. Yet Trump is taking us the opposite direction by rolling back policies that promote union neutrality, registered apprenticeship, and set a $15/hour minimum wage. Federal dollars should be creating good jobs, and this attack on workers must reversed immediately.”

Over the weekend, President Trump rolled back an executive order that set a $15 per hour minimum wage for contractors on federal projects, as well as an order that promoted union neutrality, project labor agreements, and registered apprenticeship on federal projects.