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Workers deserve the right to collectively bargain, full stop.

In an unprecedented anti-union action last Thursday, the president moved to end collective bargaining for a million federal employees and scrap union contracts nearly that number.

The American Federation of Government Employees has strongly opposed the bills.

Rank-and-file members of the NALC pushed their national leadership to call a national day of action to fight privatization and defend postal jobs against DOGE attacks.

For the 12 million workers in U.S. manufacturing, the question is whether it is possible, under this administration and in this moment of twenty-first-century capitalism, to create a pro-worker, pro-union trade policy.

The president’s cruel, reckless plan to speed up slaughterhouse lines, explained in one chart.

In 2023, a permanent memorial at the site of the fire was unveiled in memory of the workers. The memorial tells the stories of the victims and is a landmark site to visit, mourn, and learn at the very site where factory workers labored and perished.

As it becomes increasingly clear what a second Trump presidency means, America's labor movement has positioned itself as democracy's strongest, most important and best-organized line of defense against a sweeping authoritarian agenda.

“This is a way to defund Black people as a whole," retired federal worker Janice Lee said, referring to the layoffs of black government workers.

The riskiest course is to stay the course.