Trump Stomps Workers -- The American Prospect

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https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-31-trump-stomps-workers/
Harold Meyerson

Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.

There’s no question that the events of the past week have seen some federal employees engage in activities that compromised national security. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s discussion of an impending attack against Houthi forces in Yemen, and then real-time discussion of that attack as it unfolded, shared in a private chat outside official secured channels that for some bizarre reason included a journalist Waltz invited, doubtless confirmed the perceptions of America’s enemies and friends that President Trump’s national-security team is composed of dullards and doofuses who couldn’t defend America’s interests if their lives, and ours, depended on it—which, of course, they do.

On Thursday night, Trump did Waltz one better by saying he was moved to shore up national security by stripping collective-bargaining rights from perhaps one million federal employees, none of whom had anything to do with a security breach, much less one so appalling as Hegseth and Waltz’s.

Elections have consequences, of course, and as a result of the most recent one, we’ve gone from the most pro-union presidential administration in American history to the most anti-union one—at a time when unions’ approval rating of 71 percent dwarfs that of either party and of Donald Trump and Elon Musk as well. No American employer, public or private, has ever trashed so many duly agreed-to contracts as Trump just did, or destroyed the collective-bargaining rights of so many American workers.

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