Summary
A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk from accessing sensitive Labor Department data, a major win for unions concerned about worker privacy.
The lawsuit, filed by federal employee unions, argued that DOGE’s demands posed a threat to labor rights.
Union leaders praised the decision as a safeguard against government overreach.
DOGE has also faced restrictions on Treasury Department access and has taken control of USAID and the Office of Personnel Management, sparking high-profile resignations.
I’m still salty how many people are still running around shit talking the unions like they haven’t done anything.
Just because mainstream news doesn’t mention it yet, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. If you’re not on a union mailing list, you’re not hearing about stuff till it gets to this point.
There’s a shit ton of lawsuits going on, mostly because the unions work hand in hand, so when one sues, they all sue.
It’s not like private sector, when fed unions fight the federal government, the federal government is often the side with less resources.
Unions are why we have labor rights.
Protests (often incredibly violent ones) are why we have unions.
*Note an accurate explanation of how we got our rights isn’t directly advocating for how to keep them or as advocacy for violence in any form, because that’s what unacceptable about this situation
And songs like “Which Side Are You On?” make it clear that it wasn’t easy.
I’ve seen Dylan live, but I didn’t know he made an original till right now…
I immediately thought of the Dead Prez version from a decade ago and wasn’t sure what was going on lol
Pete Seeger was the first to record it. I cannot recall who the original songwriter was but her husband was a miner and not a scab for JH Blair. I strongly suggest finding one if the live versions from the earlier days if you can. It’s a great song to hear thousands singing in unison especially when you know most were unionized
Was just coming to fix that lol.
I searched it and saw a B Dolan version from like a dozen years ago and got mixed up.
Pete is the guy Bob wanted to be as a kid
This lawsuit was headed by the AFL-CIO, which is a union of unions.
I was at my monthly meeting last night until 7:45, the meeting started at 4:30. Lots of people were concerned and discussing the attacks on the NLRB, DoL and OSHA; concerned about this administration’s anti-worker tilt.
Also - these unions are made up of hundreds of thousands of beaurocrats, and NOBODY knows the rules like beaurocrats.
Source: am municipal bureaucrat.
More importantly, bureaucrats who are used to politicians making kneejerk reactions and trying things they can’t do.
Bureaucrats used to planning ahead for multiple contingencies.
trump and Elmo aren’t chaotic forces, they’re incredibly predictable idiots. The unions arent scrambling to react like a disorganized mass of employees, they just shrug and pull the next packet of documents out of a drawer and follow the next step in the binder.
They don’t need to worry about flashy attorney fees, they have an army of beige suit lawyers who file boring and predictable arguments that were written before Elmo thought to put the current plan into motion. And they have the massive savings account to pay those boring lawyers for a very long time, because federal bureacrats are risk adverse and plan for raining days.
There’s a reason neoliberals play nice when they decimate the federal workforce.
The union can outlast a president.
People shit talk the unions because our unions are just a microcosm of the US. They are just as broken and corrupt as our government.
I didn’t ask for ran example, but yes that’s entirely the type of comment I’m talking about…
Just because you personally haven’t heard of something, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
That’s literally how trump thinks tho
Help organize better ones
Yes create a gigantic organization from scratch random internet person! Haha gottem.
Every gigantic organization was originally an idea some random internet person had. You seem to be unwilling to follow the logic.
TIL “help” means “do it all by yourself.”