Labor Day, according to the Department of Labor, is “an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.”
In the days leading up to this year’s celebration, the Trump administration informed thousands of additional federal workers that it will be dissolving their union .
It’s an expansion of a move undertaken back in March to utilize President Donald Trump’s executive authority and citing national security law to argue that people who work in the US Patent and Trademark office, the National Weather Service, NASA, and hydroelectric workers across the country, among others, are too vital to national security to be able to organize.
That’s the stated reason, at least. The move is also in line with the Trump administration’s general hostility toward unio