the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Mar 31, 2025
Trump has signed an executive order to abolish the unions and void the union contracts for workers at more than two dozen federal agencies. Trump’s order followed the same attack on the union for workers at Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
These government workers belong to the American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing more than 800,000 workers at government offices around the country. Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE hit squad have been cutting tens of thousands of jobs of these federal workers. Getting rid of their union is another attack on their rights and their standard of living.
This attack is not just targeted at federal workers. This is an attack aimed at all workers. Remember what happened in 1981 when the Reagan administration fired 12,000 air traffic controllers who belonged to the PATCO union. When there was no response from the working class to defend these PATCO workers, the government and the corporations felt they were free to go after other workers. The bosses began to take concessions from the working class and those concessions still continue today.
The leaders of the government workers union said they will fight Trump’s order through the courts. The leaders of other national unions are saying the same thing. But the courts have, over and over again, showed themselves to be on the side of the politicians, the corporations and the wealthy.
Workers don’t have to depend on the courts. Workers have the power in numbers to respond to these attacks in many and creative ways.