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He's right again! How can the USA expect to compete with barefooted
workers earning 2 bowls of rice a day over in China and Vietnam if y'all
don't work cheaper?? Trump also needs to ban retirement.


Just ahead of Labor Day weekend, President Donald Trump escalated his
attack on the federal workforce by trying to strip union rights from more federal employees.

Trump signed an executive order Thursday purporting to strip collective- bargaining abilities from workers at the National Weather Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other federal agencies, claiming a onational securityo exemption.

move builds on a sweeping executive order in March that aimed to end bargaining rights for an estimated 1 million federal workers under the same premise.

Federal unions continue to challenge that order in federal court, noting
that many of the workers covered by it u including nurses and park rangers
u obviously serve no national-security functions. TheyAve called the administrationAs actions retaliation for their opposition to TrumpAs
federal workforce agenda.

Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers, which represents NASA workers who would lose their
union under the order, said it was oparticularly upsettingo that Trump
chose to sign his latest order just ahead of Labor Day, a federal holiday meant to honor the U.S. labor movement and how it has improved the lives of American workers.

As HuffPost reported in April, Trump has gone further than even former President Ronald Reagan in trying to break federal unionism. In addition to stripping bargaining rights from workers, he has derailed agencies that enforce federal union rights, ended paycheck dues deduction to starve
unions of their funding, and effectively ignored union contracts negotiated
by his predecessor.

oItAs very obvious what theyAre trying to do,o Lauren Leib, who heads a
union chapter at the Bureau of Land Management, told HuffPost at the time. o[The administration] knows we fight, and they know itAs in the public interest. WeAre fighting to keep people in these positions so they can continue to serve and they donAt like it.o
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