(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – National AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order instating Schedule P/C that would allow his Administration to fire thousands of career Federal Workers and replace them with political loyalists:

President Trump's Executive Order betrays a foundational American value: Our Government works for the people, not for one man’s political agenda. Schedule P/C is the next phase in Trump’s Anti-Worker agenda to replace Government Workers with political loyalists who answer only to him. As we’ve seen from his first day in office, the President is determined to tear down the architecture of our Federal Government and replace it with a system of corruption to benefit powerful CEOs and billionaire Union-Busters. Hundreds of thousands of Federal Workers were fired or pushed out of their jobs and a million were robbed of their Collective Bargaining Rights and had their Union contracts ripped up. The Workers who run our country’s essential services have already suffered enough at the hands of this Administration. When the Administration tried to implement Schedule P/C earlier this year, we sued alongside our Affiliate Unions and Partner Organizations. Now Trump is trying again - but the Labor Movement will continue to stand in the way. The AFL-CIO is staying in this fight because we know the Federal Workers who serve America deserve better.

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