In February, President Donald Trump began firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees, just weeks after a fatal mid-air plane crash in Washington. In August, 400,000 government workers lost their right to have a union represent them or to belong to a union.

Mike Podhorzer, former political director of the AFL–CIO, has called this "the largest act of union busting in American history." There is not another time when so many people lost their union. Podhorzer and some labor historians predict that the president will strip bargaining rights from even more of the federal workforce going forward.

This trend will eventually reach private-sector unions. The precedent has now been set and some employers are eagerly awaiting a chance to get rid of union rights and benefits.

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