Michael Sainato at The Guardian reports Donald Trump has staged a year of “unrelenting attacks on Working People,” according to the head of the largest Federation of the Labor Unions in the U.S. Now they’re preparing to fight back. National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said her Labor Federation is gearing up to challenge the President’s Billionaire First agenda in 2026 - and drive candidates in key elections to stand up for “struggling” Americans. In an interview with The Guardian, she described how the National AFL-CIO has pushed to restore Collective Bargaining Rights for Federal Workers and filed lawsuits against the Trump Administration’s efforts to weaken Unions and Worker protections. “People are pissed,” Shuler said. The House of Representatives passed a Bill earlier this month that would restore Collective Bargaining Rights for Federal Workers in response to Trump’s Executive Orders that stripped the rights from more than one million Federal Government Employees. “It was through a lot of good old-fashioned organizing,” said Shuler, who accused Trump of overseeing “the biggest attack on Unions in our history” by moving to eliminate Collective Bargaining for Federal Workers. The National AFL-CIO is now readying itself for a fight to pass the Bill in the Senate in January, kicking off what will likely be another hectic year. The threat of another Government shutdown looms at the end of January and the fight over extending Affordable Care Act subsidies is far from over. “We’re organizing as we speak,” Shuler said. “We can move actual people, in workplaces, in every city, in every State, across the country.”

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