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The second Trump administration is characterized by many parts by a focused effort to cut the number of federal employees.
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Unions have an important role in the legal challenges of mass firearms. On Thursday, two separate ruins have come to the Trump administration order to return these ended employees. deer In the Pandoan In response to 20 democratic lawyers in general calling for reconciliation of fired workers from a federal judge of Maryland. The other issued By a judge in the US District Court for the northern California district in response to a case carried by many labor unions and adbokasya. The US District William Alsup judge commands that six federal agencies repeated thousands of attempted attempts shot under the OPM guidance, one step he declared illegally. The Trump administration has already filed an appeal to that case.
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal employees (AFSCME) is one of those who accuses the second challenge. The union represents 1.4 million workers in the public service nationwide in federal, state, and local government, as well as poor sector. AFSCME president, Lee Saunders, talking wealth Regarding the threat of celebrating public workers, how his members felt, and how the unity plans to fight.
This interview is edited and combined for clarity.
Fortune: How do AFSCME members feel today?
President of the Saunder: They feel attacks. They believe in the importance of public services, and even you see them attacked each day of this administration.
They fear, but they also know that they need to hear their voices and they should fight, and that’s what they do. Their unity supported them 100% by talking about the importance of public service, and challenged some of the things this administration made, and It’s in the courtsor if it is in the media, or if it is on the streets. We will continue to do that to make our point and get our point.
AFSCME is one of the pleintiffs of case to be reduced in favor of reconciliation of fired federal prutal workers. Many have seen it as a victory for Federal Workers, but that rule is not aFecte this weekend to the Trump administration requires all agencies to send the President and OPM plans for many withdrawals. What do future workers look like?
It’s a big win for workers.
It will challenge, but let us continue to put the full strength of unity at the back of the filing of these cases. That is very important, but we must continue to sin and do not play all the time, and we will continue to do so. What we do now is organizing and moving and educating our members across the country by going to phone calls, by going to Town Hall meetings.
One of the things we have to do is keep organizing. Seventy percent to Americans believe that unions are very important in this country and 88% juvenile [view them favorably]. We will spend resources, and we can talk to workers, asking them to present to us or other unions so they have a chair on the table.
Feeling all day with new development associated with Doe’s Leases. How do you advise people to track whirlwind in actions?
I think it’s up to afscme and the labor movement and our allies and friends will continue to talk about what this administration has tried to hurt people who suffer people suffering people suffering. We need to sign up to people inside the labor movement and outside the labor movement to hear their voices. We cannot sit in vain and be silent if this destruction – and that’s exactly what happened at the federal level, [which will] Roll at state and local level, with possible large cuts of federal programs. State governments rely on federal money to fund state level programs; They’ve got 33% on [their revenue] from the federal government. That can help provide state, city, and local level services.
It’s all about keeping education. It’s all about asking [workers] To keep quiet, but to feel their voices and fight as before.
[When asked for comment, a spokesperson for the White House told Fortune: “President Trump returned to Washington with a mandate from the American people to bring about unprecedented change in our federal government to uproot waste, fraud, and abuse.”]
Elon Musk estimated A tweet that means that public sector workers are responsible for the masses killed under people like Hitler, are and Stalin and Stalin. What do you do with this comment, and the attacks on the public sector staff?
I’ll try to control my language, but … it’s a disgusting comment for him [retweet] that and compare our workers in the public sector and our members say that “Hitler, Stalin and Mao did not kill millions, but [their] Workers in public service workers. “Now just think about that. That’s where he’s from, and we need to get that message.
He has no clue what workers face every day. He has no clarification of what they do to improve our citizens’ life in our entire country and improve public service, however he has made a statement like that. I mean, unbelievable, and we need to make sure people understand that this is what he says, and these are the people of this administration.
[Fortune reached out to Elon Musk but did not get a response.]
How can unions protect workers if the government wants them to burn?
We check these cases – that’s the number one. We rejected even if we understand the climate here in Washington, DC is not the best. But we still have to go on breaking, as I said before. We Support the pro projectto give workers the right to have a chair on the table to improve Labor Labor law in the country. We do the same thing in Public freedom to negotiate the work for public service workers.
We have the ability to motivate each day – to move union members, but also workers who are not unions in our communities around the country. Because it also affects them. Actions suggested have an impact on all dependent on public services: Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security. All of these programs were attacked, and we had to do the best thing to do, and that’s what we do.
This account against public sector workers can come and be strong. How do you combat feelings that come from those who have many platforms such as Trump and Musk?
It’s not just federal workers. It’s really all the workers. There is an attack on all workers today. I think the way I can answer that question is that the reality now hits people on the face. I mean, they feel it. People are placed accidentally. Shot people. Their rights were taken from them. Services trusted by Americans trusted are cut off, and they drove to make more damage. So I mean, here is the playbook they talk about, and now they wear an action, and we need to make sure people understand its effects and their families. You have to react to this in a way where we ask people to fight back and to hear their voices. You cannot sit quietly and look at it happen.
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