The Department of Veterans Affairs appeared to be the first agency to begin terminating union contracts, affecting more than 400,000 workers.

Unionization is the one thing which has kept wages up and working conditions decent for federal workers.

  • themeatbridge
    3•14 days ago

    That’s exactly what they want, a massive strike that they can blame for all the economic problems caused by bad management. Trump wants to pretend that he’s running the country like a business, but he has the goldenest of parachutes. So he will crash the country into a depression and say “see? this is why unions are a problem.”

      • themeatbridge
        3•14 days ago

        Fuck no, that’s not at all what I’m suggesting. Unions need to fight, and strikes are usually the best form of leverage the worker has. Strike, certainly, but remember that your opponent is not the President or this administration. Trump wants this because he thinks it will help him. But if we are prepared for the spin, and reject the lies, then it will not help him. If he receives his fair share of the blame, it will be an albatross around his neck.

        • LousyCornMuffinsEnglish
          0•13 days ago

          remember that your opponent is not the President or this administration

          who would you say that the opponent is? they certainly would seem to qualify as prime among opponents

          • themeatbridge
            3•13 days ago

            The oligarchy. Trump is a symptom of the same disease, but he’s hardly the cause of it. Workers aren’t negotiating with Trump, and the President does not dictate wages. He wants to instigate a strike, or any chaos really, because he thinks it will help him politically. It will create a scapegoat he can blame for the problems he’s causing, and it will distract from his numerous scandals related to him being a serial child rapist.