Donald Trump’s first seven months in the White House have featured numerous executive orders and policies that undermine worker protections and union power. Unions and civil organizations organized over a thousand Workers Over Billionaires protests in more than 900 cities on Labor Day to condemn mass federal layoffs, elimination of wage and other protections, barriers to unionization, reduced access to healthcare and education, and aggressive deportation policies. AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler framed the moment as an unprecedented attack on the State of Working People. Recent actions include an executive order ending collective bargaining at several federal agencies and Veterans Affairs requests to remove protections for over 400,000 workers.
In the seven months since Donald Trump returned to the White House, however, the record is completely different, and the list of executive orders against workers has already led to the Trump administration being defined as the most hostile to labor issues of all time. Under the slogan Workers Over Billionaires, more than a thousand protests called by unions and civil organizations in more than 900 cities took place on Monday to commemorate Labor Day.
The slogan, launched by the May Day Strong coalition, served to condense the protests over how Donald Trump is harassing the country's workers through mass layoffs of federal employees, the elimination of protections (wages and other), obstacles to unionization, the suppression of benefits such as access to healthcare and education, and even his deportation agenda. This is a moment unlike any in the history of our labor movement and our country.
The magnate's latest labor action has once again targeted federal employees. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order directing certain agencies, such as NASA, the National Weather Service, and the Bureau of Reclamations, to end collective bargaining agreements with unions representing federal employees. The Department of Veterans Affairs had already requested the elimination of protections for more than 400,000 of its workers.
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