Brandon Chew and Mark Gruenberg at People’s World report an estimated 65,000 people tuned in to an evening webinar held late last week where multiple Unions and their allies raised awareness on how Working Class People can help protect Public Services and Civil Servants in their communities fight back against the chainsaw cutting of jobs and programs by Republican President Donald Trump and his handler, multi-billionaire Elon Musk. Participants detailed the latest attacks against Federal Workers by Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Their webinar occurred the same day a Federal Judge in San Francisco ordered multiple Federal Departments to immediately offer job reinstatement to at least 24,000 Employees Trump terminated in mass firings in mid-February. “Let’s just call it what it is. We are facing a billionaire coup. They are attempting to take over everything and steal everything that is not nailed down,” said Paul Osadebe, a Shop Steward with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 476. “They are attacking Public Servants first and foremost because they think that they should have the ability to decide what has value in this society and who has value. And anything that doesn’t make money and put money in their pockets, they think that should just be cut outright.” “An unelected billionaire (Musk) is literally wielding a chainsaw (against Workers and their jobs) without thinking what it means to people’s lives,” National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said. Webinar Organizers, affiliated with the Federal Unionists Network, encouraged attendees to visit its website: www.savepublicservices.com. The site lets users join a rapid response network to be notified of emergency protests in their communities against cuts to public services. It’s also offering assistance to people looking to get involved in organizing efforts.

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