(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - “I haven’t even received official notification that I’ve been fired,” a former U.S. Labor Department Worker told People’s World during a watch party held at National AFL-CIO headquarters where she joined a crowd observing Donald Trump’s speech to Congress.

“I really loved this job and thought it would be a career. Now I’m going to lose health insurance in a month,” said the woman, who declined to provide her name to People’s World, after receiving her final paycheck in early March.

As for other benefits, she said: “I keep trying to find an answer, but the Department of Labor refuses to get back to me. We knew for weeks what was coming, but we didn’t know when. It was back and forth and back and forth (with the Federal Government’s Office of Personnel Management and its Human Resources Department).”

That agency kept her supervisors in the dark too.

The Government Employees drew a big crowd to protest the firings in front of Office and Personnel Management (OPM) earlier in the day.

“Fire Musk” and “Dump Musk” were among the milder signs.

“Now I have to sort out the options for recourse,” for being illegally fired, the Worker continued.

That’s thanks to court rulings National AFL-CIO Unions obtained against Musk, Trump and their so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Musk claims millions of dollars in “savings” and so did Trump, but that was just another lie as Musk kept revising the dollar savings downward.

A special target of the Trump-Musk cuts, not mentioned, of course, in his speech was Black Workers.

Brittany Anderson, Interim Executive Director of Pride at Work, the National AFL-CIO Constituency Group for LGBTQIA+ Workers did: “There’s been an intentional multi-decade campaign by the ultra-wealthy corporate interests to part Federal Workers from the greater Working Class. This is because Federal jobs have been a significant gateway to the Middle Class, especially for Black Americans, Women and also LGBTQIA+ people.”

Trump boasted of firing Federal Workers, via Musk - a total which National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE)/International Association of Machinists (IAM) Sector President Randy Erwin says has now reached 175,000.

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