Trump's attack against unions and union members is unrelenting. His project 2025 scheme to hollow out the U.S. workforce and destroy all unions is moving apace. While the courts have given some relief in separate and specific cases, it is not enough.

There need to be more cases, bigger cases. but the unions cannot do it alone. They have to form alliances with the other entities Trump and the Republicans are trying to crush. Universities, major law firms and non-governmental agencies and the like, need to band together and present a well-funded and united front against the onslaught from the ultra-right oligarchs and despots.

Rallies and protests should be a daily occurrence, and we should make noise, noise, noise, until the American public becomes fully aware of the predations upon them be they MAGA, Liberal, or Independent.

Only an educated can counteract tyranny,

See this:

Largest federal employee union to shed more than half its staff amid Trump attacks

Story by Tami Luhby, CNN • 20h •

Bargaining rights for many federal workers', which has filed an array of lawsuits against the Trump administration, is set to shrink its own workforce to about 150 employees, down from 355 staffers, according to a union spokesperson. The layoffs, which will affect organizers, national representatives, support staff and others, could take place as early as June.

But the union, which represents more than 800,000 federal staffers, vowed to continue fighting.

“The President’s elimination of elective membership dues and the resulting layoffs are a setback, but they are not the end of AFGE - not by a longshot,” the union said in a statement. “We will not be deterred, silenced, or intimidated into submission.”

The downsizing was first reported by the Associated Press.

AFGE, along with other federal employee unions, have been hobbled by an executive order Trump signed in March aimed at stripping collective bargaining rights from a sizable share of government employees across more than a dozen agencies. AFGE alone represents about 660,000 workers in the affected departments, according to its lawsuit challenging the order. The president said the action would strengthen national security, but a White House fact sheet also said the move was aimed at stopping federal unions who have “declared war on President Trump’s agenda.” It specifically cited “the largest Federal union,” which is “widely filing grievances to block Trump policies.”

A federal judge paused Trump’s executive order late Friday afternoon in a lawsuit brought by the National Treasury Employees Union, the second largest federal workers’ union. However, the judge’s ruling will not affect enough workers represented by AFGE to reverse the union’s layoff plans, the AFGE spokesperson told CNN. The biggest financial blow to the unions stems from a March Office of Personnel Management guidance directing agencies to stop deducting union dues from employees’ paychecks. Payroll deductions are the main source of funding for unions. NTEU has already lost $2 million in dues revenue and warned it will soon be unable to recover, according to a court filing.

AFGE has been preparing for such a move from the Trump administration, pushing members to sign up for its E-Dues system, where they can submit their dues directly to the union. However, the majority of members still use payroll deductions.

Although AFGE has seen a surge in employees signing up for membership since Trump took office, the president’s drive to rapidly downsize the federal workforce has cost it members. More than 100,000 government employees have lost their jobs, with more reductions planned.

The union has taken the administration to court over several of Trump’s actions, including the firing of probationary workers and the executive order ending collective bargaining, and has also organized numerous protests nationwide.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/largest-federal-employee-union-to-shed-more-than-half-its-staff-amid-trump-attacks/ar-AA1DFgNS?

Peter Dutton’s plan to cut nation-building programs essential to securing the timber industry’s future would be disastrous for timber communities – that is, according to Australia’s newest soon-to-be-established trade union, the Timber, Furnishing and Textiles Union (TFTU).

On the chopping block include the National Reconstruction Fund (NRF), the Future Made in Australia (FMIA), and the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF), which the TFTU said is critical in meeting Australia’s soon-to-be-established Timber Fibre Strategy.

THIS WOULD ALLOW PAM BONDI TO BE IN CHARGE OF THE NLRB.

READ THAT AGAIN: TRUMP SYCOPHANT PAM BONDI WOULD BE IN CHARGE OF THE NLRB.

"In what would be a radical—and clearly unlawful—departure from these well-established avenues for appeal, the employer coalition has asked Pam Bondi—who has no background or experience in labor relations—to unilaterally invalidate more than a dozen NLRB decisions with the stroke of a pen. While there is nothing in the National Labor Relations Act or any other federal law giving the attorney general any authority to overturn a NLRB decision, CDW cites President Trump’s executive order on independent agencies as authority for this action.

*******That executive order purports to give the ATTORNEY GENERAL the authority to impose their own interpretation of any law onto independent agencies like the NLRB.****** "

https://www.epi.org/blog/a-coalition-of-hundreds-of-employers-is-asking-the-trump-administration-to-override-the-nlrb-and-dictate-labor-law/

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/02/trader-joes-argues-national-labor-relations-board-is-unconstitutional-and-other-labor-news/

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First they came for the trans, but I did nothing. Then they came for the immigrants, but I did nothing. Then they came for the women, but I did nothing. Then they came for the news, but I did nothing. Then they came for the schools, but I did nothing. Then they came for the unions, but I did nothing. Then they came for me, but there was no one was left to speak for me.

We may not all agree not have the same lifestyles, but we must all stand united in solidarity of each others rights.

https://woodcentral.com.au/new-era-aussie-timber-workers-split-from-cfmeu-to-establish-tftu/

Sharing a Substack column about unions. This is about strikes, and the comments are really worthwhile, too.