By Steven Greenhouse in The Guardian:
After spending tens of millions of dollars in hopes of electing Hillary Clinton, the labor movement fears that President-elect Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled Congress and the supreme court will be hostile to labor and take numerous steps to hobble unions.
These steps can range from appointing a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that does business’s bidding to erasing an array of Obama administration regulations, including one making overtime pay available to millions more workers.
Lee Saunders, who is chairman of the AFL-CIO’s political committee, fears that Congress might enact a so-called national right-to-work law, which would prohibit any requirement that employees at unionized private-sector workplaces pay union fees. Saunders also worries that the supreme court – after Trump nominates a presumably conservative justice to fill the vacancy left by Antonin Scalia’s death – will rule that government employees can’t be required to pay union fees.