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June 11, 2025

Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back

Luis Feliz Leon In These Times

The arrest of SEIU President David Huerta in Los Angeles has put unions on the leading edge of resistance to mounting authoritarianism.

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June 11, 2025

Trump Has Put a Target on SEIU, and the Labor Movement Is Fighting Back

Luis Feliz Leon In These Times

The arrest of SEIU President David Huerta in Los Angeles has put unions on the leading edge of resistance to mounting authoritarianism.

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April 2, 2025

Trump Claimed He Was Pro-Worker. His New Order Shows How Absurd That Was

Steven Greenhouse The Guardian

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.

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February 19, 2025

If Trump Crushes Federal Workers, We’re All Next

Eric Blanc The Nation

Musk’s attacks on federal employees and their unions aren’t just a threat to the specific workers in his current line of fire. They pose an unparalleled danger to every single American.

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January 29, 2025

Public Service Unions File Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Efforts To Politicize the Civil Service

AFSCME Staff AFSCME

The American Federation of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employee filed suit against the Trump administration challenging efforts to politizise the civil service.

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January 22, 2025

Trump Administration Sued Over Order Making It Easier To Fire Federal Workers

Michael Sainato The Guardian

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.

August 8, 2022

Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals

Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker The New Yorker

How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.

December 30, 2021

At Least 13 Republicans Who Participated in Jan. 6 Attack Are Running for Office

Sharon Zhang Truthout

If elected, these candidates would join at least 10 other Republican participants in the attack who have been elected to state and local offices. Many of them enjoy support of fellow party leaders — a sign of the right’s ongoing radicalization.

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September 30, 2020

U.S. Unions Warn Trump: Don’t Even Think About It

Eric Lee Solidarity

The AFL-CIO “categorically rejects all threats to the peaceful transition of power” said Richard Trumka, “The labor movement,” he said, “simply will not allow any breach of the U.S. Constitution or other effort to deny the will of the people."

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September 23, 2020

Trump Claims He’s Pro-Worker. But His Labor Board Is Trying to Destroy Worker Organizing.

PAUL PRESCOD Jacobin

Donald Trump tries to portray himself as pro-worker. Nowhere is this absurdity better exposed than in the decisions of his National Labor Relations Board, which have over and over again favored bosses rather than workers.

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