Project 2025 -- a Heritage Foundation blueprint for a new GOP administration authorized by Trump and prepared by at least 140 people who had worked in his first administration -- proposes to ban public employee unions, empower the states to ban unions in the private sector, and give states the right to ignore federal minimum wage and maximum hour protections.  In addition, it calls for eliminating child labor rules that protect children from working in mines, meatpacking plants, and other hazardous occupations.  To help implement this draconic program and its other astonishing recommendations (for example, abolishing the Department of Education), Project 2025 advocates the firing of 50,000 federal government workers and replacing them with Trump loyalists.