UNITE HERE issued the following statement on the Trump Administration’s Executive Order on federal workers’ collective bargaining rights:
“Our right to organize is under attack. The White House has issued an Executive Order that would strip the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies. If they get away with it, no union contract in this country is safe.”
“Workers have made tremendous sacrifices to win our good wages, our healthcare, our pensions, and the right to walk into work every day with our heads held high. We will not give up without a massive fight. Our siblings in federal unions are front and center right now, and if we don’t fight for them, it will be our rights on the line next.”
“Winning hard fights is what our union does. Five years ago—almost to the day—the COVID-19 pandemic swept through and left 98% of us out of work. We came back stronger than ever. We organized tens of thousands more workers into the union and won life-changing contracts in hotels, cafeterias, and casinos across the US and Canada.”
“This Executive Order is a threat to the entire labor movement. Our union is mobilizing in solidarity with millions of workers across the country. Standing together is where our power comes from, and it’s how we’ll win this fight, too.”
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