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Federal Workers Organize Against Billionaire Power Grab
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 Feb. 20, 2025 | WORKERS’ RIGHTS | The second Trump administration has the federal workforce in its crosshairs. Spearheading the effort is Elon Musk (the richest man in the world) and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (not actually a government department). Trump and Musk have taken a shotgun-blast approach: instituting a hiring freeze, shutting down whole agencies, telling workers to stop coming in, offering buyouts to 2 million workers, ordering remote workers back to the office in violation of union contracts, and mass-firing workers still in their probationary periods. The changes appear designed to create chaos among federal workers, their unions, and those who rely on federal programs. They have come fast and numerous, seemingly without regard to legality. …Federal unions have begun to respond by filing lawsuits and holding rallies. Labor Notes PHOTO/AP
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