“The labor movement has an opportunity to strengthen our organizations and show that we fight for all members. If the Trump administration can get away with coming after immigrants and federal workers, they’ll keep coming for more of us.”
Our commitment as the AFL-CIO, as the Labor Movement, is we’re not going to be looking back in 10 years like we did with the air traffic controllers saying we should have done something. We’re going to use every resource that we have.
Workers deserve the right to collectively bargain, full stop.
The American Federation of Government Employees has strongly opposed the bills.
“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 administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.
Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME: "I think it’s up to AFSCME and the labor movement and our allies and friends to continue to talk about what this administration is trying to do to hurt working people."
“They’re after nothing more than the entire public sphere,” Chris Dols of the Federal Unionists Network told the Foley Square crowd. He urged other public-sector unions to join the fight and “make it unmanageable."
While Reddit and Instagram are already gathering places for federal workers to commiserate, We the Builders aims to offer an alternative outlet for workers who may be fearful to share their stories even through an anonymous social media account
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