The LuLac Edition #5, 429th, September 1st, 2025

 

HAPPY LABOR DAY FROM TRUMP AND THE MAGAS

BUT YOU VOTED AGAINST UNIONS!

There has been an assault on union labor from the Trump administration. A few examples.

Kari Lake, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the Voice of America, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

“The U.S. Agency for Global Media initiated what is known as a reduction in force, or RIF, of a large number of its full-time federal employees,” Lake wrote late on Friday, adding that this would “help reduce the federal bureaucracy … and save the American people more of their hard-earned money.”

President Donald Trump escalated his attack on the federal workforce by trying to strip union rights from more federal employees.

Trump signed an executive order Thursday purporting to strip collective-bargaining abilities from workers at the National Weather Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other federal agencies, claiming a “national security” exemption.

The move builds on a sweeping executive order in March that aimed to end bargaining rights for an estimated 1 million federal workers under the same premise.

Federal unions continue to challenge that order in federal court, noting that many of the workers covered by it — including nurses and park rangers — obviously serve no national-security functions. They’ve called the administration’s actions retaliation for their opposition to Trump’s federal workforce agenda. An appeals court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees while a lawsuit plays out

The Friday ruling came after the Trump administration asked for an emergency pause on a judge’s order blocking enforcement at roughly three dozen agencies and departments.

A split three-judge panel in the nation’s capital sided with government lawyers in a lawsuit filed by unions representing federal employees

In Pennsylvania's state minimum wage rate is $7.25 per hour. This is the same as the current Federal Minimum Wage rate. The minimum wage applies to most employees in Pennsylvania, with limited exceptions including tipped employees, some student workers, and other exempt occupations.

The last time the minimum wage was raised was 2009!

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE STATE SENATE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS!

In this day of celebration of American workers, Trump’s MAGAs and compliant Republicans say this: SCREW YOU!