By C.J. Atkins\ People’s World
Photos: People’s World\Wikimedia Commons
Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.” That’s the conclusion of the latest Global Rights Index report published by the International Trade Union Confederation, the world’s largest trade union federation, representing 191 million workers in 169 countries.
“We are witnessing a coup against democracy, a concerted, sustained assault by state authorities and the corporate underminers of democracy on the rights and welfare of workers,” the 2025 Index says. “This attack is orchestrated by far-right demagogues backed by billionaires who are determined to reshape the world in their own interests at the expense of ordinary working people.”
The Global Rights Index is the only comprehensive international study of the state of workers’ rights and trade union freedoms. It has been produced annually since 2014. This year’s edition of the report warns of a “stark and worsening global crisis for workers and unions.”
While similar trends are being observed in multiple countries, the Trump administration is clearly seen as leading the charge, followed by politicians elsewhere. Trump, the ITUC points out, “has taken a wrecking ball to the collective labor rights of workers and brought anti-union billionaires into the heart of policymaking.”
Mass layoffs of federal workers, the stripping of union protections for TSA workers, the firing of a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and other offenses by Trump all come in for heavy criticism…. READ MORE…
