Secret Trump memo details plans to destroy government workers' unions

[CousinIT]

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/secret-trump-memo-details-plans-to-destroy-government-workers-unions/

WASHINGTON—The Government Employees (AFGE), the nation’s largest union for federal workers, has summarized and is publishing, in five installments, a secret Trump administration memo outlining in detail how President Donald Trump and his ideologues systematically plan to destroy federal worker unions. AFGE adds its own analysis. Part 1 and Part 2 have already appeared, with three more to come.

And private-sector workers and unions are next on Trump’s hit list, the memo promises.

The memo by Trump White House aide James Sherk, a former “fellow” at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, is being posted and analyzed on AFGE’s website. It includes restoring Republican President George W. Bush’s ban on unionization of the nation’s 45,000 airport screeners. And that’s just for starters.

It also would ban unions for the Defense Department’s 200,000 civilian workers, the hundreds of thousands of workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and workers at the Department of Homeland Security and the federal Office of Personnel Management—the government’s human resources agency—itself. Trump also wants to abolish OPM.

Killing OPM and transferring its oversight of federal workers to unaccountable White House aides would bring back the spoils system of the 1880s and before, union leaders say.

“The memo, laced with familiar half-truths and outright lies, is proof AFGE has been right all along in saying the administration’s true goal in making changes to personnel rules is to ‘end collective bargaining’ in the federal sector. It’s right there in their own words,” the union states. It also goes far beyond Trump’s prior executive orders trashing federal worker rights.

Trump’s executive orders don’t plan to obliterate unions outright. His memo does.

[SlogginThroughIt]

1. what is peoplesworld.org?

[rzemanfl]

2. My question too. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

4. See #3

[rzemanfl]

6. Thank you. I am reluctant to click links to unfamiliar websites. n/t

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Here's a hint on their masthead...

And note that this is nothing new-- rightwingers have been coming up with this stuff since Reagan.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. It's a socialist on line news organization

It's very pro worker. Something this nation sorely lacks.

[NCLefty]

8. Media Bias Fact Check says they're pending review:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sources-pending/

/shrug

[NBachers]

5. So what's the breakdown of union Republican voters compared to union Democratic voters ?

[Farmer-Rick]

9. I have heard that 40% of union members vote RepubliCON

But that's from a GOP/Russian site. It's probobly more like 30%.

And those 30% are probably not dues paying.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Add this:

He doesn't want to destroy the USpostal service union, he just wants to sell the USPS to whichever bidder, Fed Ex or UPS gives them the most extravagant campaign donations. Then Fed Ex and UPS can trash the union in typical form............

[oasis]

11. Union Yes kick for exposure.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. There should be a link to the AFGE Government Employees union website publishing the memo

It is referenced in the excerpt, but no link.

I'd expect a government workers' union would be pretty legit.

[jxla]

17. AFGE articles

Part 1 https://www.afge.org/article/the-secret-white-house-memo-inside-trumps-plan-to-destroy-unions/

Part 2 https://www.afge.org/article/the-secret-memo-how-trump-plans-to-end-collective-bargaining-in-government/

Part 3 https://www.afge.org/article/the-secret-memo-trumps-plan-to-slash-your-pay-healthcare-retirement/

Part 4 https://www.afge.org/article/the-secret-memo-trumps-plan-to-purge-federal-workers/

Part 5 https://www.afge.org/article/the-secret-memo-trump-implements-union-busting-strategy/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Thanks. . . . nt

[czarjak]

13. Work for a living and vote Republican?

Brilliant.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Trump is the anti-FDR

Workers won't work very fast once Trump eviscerates workers' rights.

[Bayard]

15. You gotta hope

We can get him out before this, and hordes of other travesties, are enacted.

[SunSeeker]

16. K & R for exposure.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Red MAGAts blame unions for their stagnant wages. Seriously, they do.