Last Thursday night, President Trump signed an executive order that fundamentally undercuts union and labor rights that Americans have counted on for 100 years. The executive order strips the rights to organize and to bargain away from one and a half million federal employees. And that's just where he wants to start. So for over 100 years, Americans have joined together in unions to fight to win everything from child labor laws to the minimum wage to the 40 hour work week. (00:38–00:48)
CLAIM
Asserts that the executive order removes organizing and bargaining rights from 1.5 million federal employees.
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