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WASHINGTON—Using “national security” as an excuse and accusing federal worker unions of obstructing virtually everything, worker-hating Republican President Donald Trump ordered more than 30 federal agencies, most of them large, to trash their union contracts—now.
Trump’s fact sheet and the memo from his Office of Personnel Management Acting Director, Charles Ezell, are filled with anti-union vitriol. Trump also wraps himself in the flag, by basically declaring unions are the enemy of the people and the country. OPM is the federal government’s human resources arm.
“President Trump refuses to let union obstruction interfere with his efforts to protect Americans and our national interests,” OPM’s fact sheet blares, without evidence of unions obstructing any protections.
The two documents also provide a glimpse of Trump’s plans for private-sector workers, once he gets finished destroying federal workers and unions. In his first term, Trump White House aides, alumni of the far-right worker-hating Heritage Foundation, openly said “feds first, everyone else afterwards.”
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler rang that alarm in her response to Trump, as did Postal Workers President Mark Dimondstein at a forum several days before.
“To every single American who cares about the fundamental freedom of all workers, now is the time to be even louder. The labor movement is not about to let Trump and an unelected billionaire,” Elon Musk, whom analysts call Trump’s puppeteer, “destroy what we’ve fought for generations to build. We will fight this outrageous attack on our members with every fiber of our collective being,” said Shuler. READ MORE…
