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How America Ended Up on the World's Worker Rights Watchlist
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10:08Now PlayingFor the first time since the ITUC Global Rights Index began, the United States is on the workers' rights Watchlist — next to Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Liberia, Moldova, the Philippines, and Zimbabwe.
Receipts the Index and AFL-CIO flag: more than 1 million federal workers stripped of collective bargaining rights; NLRB hollowed; immigrant union members stripped of status; immigration enforcement used against expression, assembly, and association.
Pew, pre-election 2024: about 43% of union voters said they'd back Trump then; 46% of union voters said his policies would make things worse for union members.
Sidebar, mechanism-honest: Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned April 20, 2026 on misconduct allegations — not because unions body-bagged her over a June Watchlist. Different timeline. Still a footnote.
SOURCES
1. Luc Triangle & Cathy Feingold — Trump Is Rolling Back So Many Workers' Rights, He's Placed the US on a Watchlist (Common Dreams, Jul 29, 2026)
2. AFL-CIO — AFL-CIO Reacts to Placement of United States on ITUC Global Rights Watchlist (Jun 1, 2026)
3. Pew Research Center — Key facts about union members and the 2024 election (Oct 17, 2024)
4. Rep. Rosa DeLauro — Statement on Resignation of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Apr 20, 2026)
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