Summary
Trump is nullifying federal employee union contracts negotiated in Biden’s final days.
Affected contracts include one with the Education Department ratified just before his inauguration. Trump cited a 2010 Supreme Court decision to justify his stance but did not provide a clear legal basis.
Federal employee unions, representing 800,000 workers, vowed legal action, calling Trump’s move unlawful intimidation.
This continues Trump’s prior efforts to weaken job protections, with additional plans to reclassify and lay off civil servants.
These are a bunch of civil servants, not tradespeople. Trade unions are the ones you don’t fuck with.
Just a friendly reminder that multiple Roman emperors were killed by bureaucrats.
Not at all, unless you consider the Praetorian Guard “bureaucrats”, which would be a hell of a stretch.
Aurelian and several Eastern Roman emperors beg to differ.
I’ll grant you Aurelian, but equating the Byzantine court to HR department staff is… something. I think the analogue there would be if congress or the Chiefs of Staff were to depose the President.
There were a couple Eastern Roman emperors who got shanked by bureaucrats. Mind uou they didnt reign for long and barely made it into the history books.
Piss enough people off and it don’t matter the flavor of union
I suspect trades unions might join with them in solidarity. The civil servants would have to put themselves on the line, but I think they would have support.
The fuck? Shawn Fain supports tariffs?!?
Dude what the fuck is happening?
Well the context is, he supports tariffs that protect American factory jobs. He supports investing in worker protections and domestic factories. He’s basically saying that when American factories exist for a product, products made elsewhere with cheaper foreign labor should have tariffs on them to raise the price of those foreign goods to protect domestic workers. That is actually a reasonable position.
What is not a reasonable position is imposing tariffs when we have no domestic production while simultaneously destroying American worker protections to ensure that we continue to have no domestic production and that workers have even less than they did before.
Yeah. That first bit is competition law essentially, the guy seems to get a bit confused though. Trump might speak to the little guy, but he’s not speaking to defend them.
Nothing. The way you stop outsourcing labor to cheaper locations is by taxing the product on import to neutralize the difference. If the US did that since the beginning of the global trade, the US would still be manufacturing everything that was outsourced to China. The issue with Trump’s tariffs is that they’re not targeted to just things the US manufactures or things that can reasonably restart manufacturing. These tariffs for example are helping auto manufacturing but make aluminum and parts needed for that manufacturing more expensive. So they’re nonsensical and could actually cost jobs.
Entirely separately, merely protecting jobs from outsourcing isn’t enough because, if labor unions are busted and domestic wages are stagnant.
Welp…
Yeah, that’s my concern I’ve worked with the civil servants. They’re angry all the time but never do anything.
Surely there must be a few of them that arenot “angry and lazy”?
There must be at least a few that make the Government actually function?
I’m not saying they’re lazy I’m just saying they are not going to do anything about being angry.
Have you seen any backlash to date other than hand-wringing online?