Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports the Nation’s Veterans “are the most deeply affected” by Elon Musk-Donald Trump’s planned cuts, including at the U.S. Labor Department (USDOL), says William Attig - an Iraq-Afghanistan War Vet who is the Executive Director of the National AFL-CIO’s Affinity Group for those who served. The USDOL has an office that helps Veterans and their families find jobs and also walks them through the paperwork they need to establish small businesses, Attig explained in an interview before last week’s rally on the USDOL’s front stairs. That Office is on the hit list of Musk and Trump, along with the rest of the USDOL, he fears. The USDOL is important for Workers, Union and Non-Union. Its Workers, almost all Union Members, monitor corporate criminals for overtime pay, minimum wage and job safety and health violations. They also write new rules the corporate class hates to follow. And the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) not only protects job safety and health - but has the added task of shielding whistleblowers against lawbreakers. All that is in danger, the National AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the Communications Workers of America (CWA),the Association of Federal, State and County Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Economic Policy Institute said in a lawsuit filed in Federal Court in D.C., concurrent with the rally. They demand a permanent court order banning Musk, Trump and Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from grabbing private and sensitive Labor Department data, including Union records and OSHA investigations of Musk’s companies, such as Tesla and Twitter/X. USDOL Workers have been told to turn the data over to DOGE’s rooters or get fired on the spot.

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