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“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."

One day after Donald Trump returned to office, a leading government labor union filed a lawsuit against his administration’s reclassification of thousands of federal workers as political hires.

Donald Trump has pledged to revive an executive order known as Schedule F that would give him the power, if re-elected president, to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of government civil servants, a step toward autocracy.