CWA Statement on Executive Order Silencing Union Workers

Last night, President Trump issued yet another illegal executive order targeted at workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain contracts. This time, he is trying to prevent workers at over 30 federal agencies from exercising their fundamental right to join together to improve their working conditions.

That’s bad enough. But the executive order makes it clear that Donald Trump wants to go even further. He says he has specifically targeted these workers and their unions because they have filed grievances against him and members of his administration over illegal layoffs and other actions they have taken to violate union contracts and federal law.

CWA is a fighting union. When our employers violate our collective bargaining agreements, when they refuse to bargain fair contracts, when they stand in the way of workers’ organizing to join our union, we use every tool we have to protect our rights. That is exactly what the federal workers are doing, and Donald Trump is attempting to punish them for it.

We won’t back down. We won’t be silenced. Our solidarity is stronger than Donald Trump and the CEOs and billionaires who helped elect him. We will rally, we will march, and, if necessary, we will strike to ensure that every worker is able to join a union and collectively bargain to ensure a better future for themself and their family.

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About CWA: The Communications Workers of America represents working people in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech, and other fields.

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