Fighting to Protect Our Union Contracts
Last week, President Trump issued an illegal executive order targeted at workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain contracts. The order prevents workers at over 30 federal agencies from exercising their fundamental right to join together to improve their working conditions. It specifically targets these workers and their unions because they have filed grievances against President Trump and members of his administration over illegal layoffs and other actions they have taken to violate union contracts and federal law.
CWA members and retirees have joined with the rest of the labor movement to fight back against this attack, which threatens all of us. With this executive order and other attacks on our rights, President Trump and his billionaire backers are sending a clear message to our employers: if you want to ignore union contracts and labor laws, we have your back.
Protecting workers’ collective bargaining rights isn’t a partisan issue. It’s about whether or not you want to hand even more control over our jobs and our lives to CEOs and hedge fund managers.
On Tuesday, Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, along with a group of other Republican members of Congress, sent a letter to President Trump asking him to reconsider the executive order and restore federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. Rep. Fitzpatrick also joined with Maine Rep. Jared Golden, a Democrat, to introduce a bill to reverse the executive order.
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This post originally appeared on cwa-union.org.
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