Hi John,

In the past 100 days, President Trump, Elon Musk and their unaccountable DOGE have fired or targeted for firing at least 121,000 federal workers. They’ve been ripping up union contracts, cutting critical services we rely on and dismantling the fundamental freedom to organize for a better life.

We were ready for Project 2025—but this governing agenda is Project 2025 on steroids. Everything from Medicaid and Social Security, the U.S. Postal Service and Department of Veterans Affairs programs, and cancer research and food inspections have been on the chopping block over the past few months to pay for even bigger tax cuts for billionaires and giant corporations. And in the meantime, costs for working families just keep going up and up.

In short: This is the most anti-union, anti-worker barrage of attacks we’ve ever seen come from the White House.

But you know what’s giving us hope right now? You. The power and solidarity of our 63 unions, our 15 million union members, and working people all across this country—standing up and speaking out for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

The labor movement is leading the fight against this administration’s illegal actions and defending the jobs and services that people depend on. In the past 100 days, we’ve launched our own Department of People Who Work for a Living rapid response program to hold the DOGE accountable—and Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network to get workers the legal support they need to fight back.

We have tens of thousands of people showing up to rallies, and protests, and town halls—working folks who are ready to do something. We have entire communities coming out to protect their immigrant neighbors. We have brave lawyers taking the fight to this administration and winning in court, so that thousands of Americans can return to their jobs.

And we have people continuing to organize together and form unions in places we never have before, like the Deep South. Workers are saying: If the government isn’t going to fight for me, or raise my wages to a livable wage, I’ll stand with my co-workers and do it myself.

The labor movement is under attack like never before, but we’ve never been more united—and the people united will never be defeated.

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If you’re looking for things to do right now on this 100 days marker, here are a few other ways you can get involved:

• Call Congress to restore federal bargaining rights now. Call your member of Congress and tell them to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act and to reverse the Trump administration’s executive order stripping the right to organize from hundreds of thousands of federal workers at more than 30 agencies. We are asking every single American who cares about the fundamental freedom of all workers to join a union to call their member of Congress right now at 844-896-5059.
• Find an event near you. Our union, state labor federation and local labor leaders are holding events all across the country every week to educate, organize, and mobilize working people. Keep checking in on our map to find an event near you. 
• Join the Department of People Who Work for a Living, our own pseudo-government agency to expose the billionaire takeover. Share our content on social media and take action to stand up to the DOGE.
• Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network is uniting over a thousand lawyers to ensure working people get the support they deserve. Tell your friends by sending them to workerslegaldefense.org and donate to help support fired federal workers.
• Tell Congress to stop the cuts to NIOSH. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health researches worker exposures to heat and wildfire smoke, workplace violence, back injuries and other chronic diseases, and state-of-the-art technologies that keep workers safe in mines. Public pressure on Congress has already helped reinstate some NIOSH employees, at least temporarily. Tell Congress to keep workers safe and stop the cuts. 

Thank you for standing with working people these 100 days and every day. We are grateful to be in this fight with you.  

In Solidarity,

Team AFL-CIO

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