This Is A Precarious Time, For Labor Rights In America...

First (almost trivially), and as I've alluded to in commentary on Twitter, 45 does not possess the Constitutional (or statutory) power to freeze raises for federal workers, unless he issues an order that there is an economic emergency nationwide requiring that he do so. That would sort of undercut his largely false boasts about creating a great economic engine in under two years. So his supposed freeze won't. . . hold.

But more broadly, using his appointed sycophants in agency seats, he seeks to take away the bargaining power of American labor.

We must resist.

America is great largely because of (forced, slave labor, and then, much later) immigrants' efforts -- and organized, collectively bargained-for. . . labor. Anyone who says otherwise simply ignores a color-blind and accurate history. We must preserve that history's accuracy and vitality.

America is only as great as her lowest paid honest, hard-working laborer. And the balance is tipping away from protecting them.

Fight to keep living wages a central topic of the 2018 midterms, right alongside me.

Onward.

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