Summary
Trump is nullifying federal employee union contracts negotiated in Biden’s final days.
Affected contracts include one with the Education Department ratified just before his inauguration. Trump cited a 2010 Supreme Court decision to justify his stance but did not provide a clear legal basis.
Federal employee unions, representing 800,000 workers, vowed legal action, calling Trump’s move unlawful intimidation.
This continues Trump’s prior efforts to weaken job protections, with additional plans to reclassify and lay off civil servants.
unions around the country need to join in sympathy strikes
Half the unions will be dissolved due to lack of work shortly, anyway.
Sympathy strikes are illegal in the US. Not saying wildcat strikes wouldn’t be justified, but there is a deliberate policy to undermine this type of broader solidarity.
Who cares if they are illegal, they want us to be afraid. I’d say do the stikes, what they gonna do arrest everyone in the country?
This, at this point we’re uhh… kinda… fucked
I mean honestly, this country has needed a good general strike for a long fucking time, for a lot of reasons.
Yeah, people need to realize unions and labor movements are about power, not a codified system of rules. “Legal” strikes are a fiction unions comply with only so long as the general system is working for them.
What we need is labor to group together and start buying their own courts and judges.
I suspect that funding worker organizing would yield greater results
and why the fuck should we care about legality, in what way is legality equivilent to morality. If we let the law justify what is moral, then any time something works for labor, they can just make it illegal and therefor immoral