- cross-posted to:
- workreform@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- workreform@lemmy.world
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.
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Cant they just all collectivly go on strike? There was no such thing as agreements when unions started.
[gestures broadly to Regan and the ATC strike]
Yeah, but thats just air traffic control. The situation is also very different now with DOGE eliminating any trust in job stability, and many looking for a way out anyeays since the perks of working as a fed are erroding anyways. They simply cant fire everyone, because they already fired too many people.
Regan was able to backfill the controllers with the military in the interim. Thats simply not possible for every job that exists in the government.
The alternative is to give up on unions altogether because if they have no teeth then there is no point paying dues.
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.”
Oh no if we fight back that’s exactly what they want!
The only solution is to do nothing and let them do what they want!
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.
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
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.
The .01% and their sycophants are the opponent.
And then the true nazi-style scapegoating will go in full swing
Really following the playbook here
They could…
But then theyd all be fired and the government would pay 10x as much to a private company who pays their staff half as much.
There isnt a private company for every function of the goverment.
A federal appeals court on Friday had approved Mr. Trump’s order instructing agencies to end collective bargaining agreements — part of a sweeping effort to assert more control over the federal work force.
But the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which allowed the order to proceed, did so in part because the Trump administration had directed agencies not to move ahead with the plan until the court battle was resolved. Because of that instruction, the judges wrote, there was a lower risk of harm to the unions and their members.
Thats some bullshit circular logic…
If that’s the precedent then he can do anything as long as he says he’d wait for the ruling
They need to make the full appeals panel vote.
would someone tell the trump administration it’s sexier if they make the union take it off slowly
it’s really sexier if they leave it all on, but they might buy the analogy
