AAUP President Todd Wolfson on Illegal Termination of Union Rights

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued this statement: 

Last night, President Trump signed an executive order unlawfully terminating collective bargaining rights at more than a dozen federal agencies and offices, potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

Like so many recent actions, this is the move of an authoritarian, and shows the Trump administration’s fundamental disregard for working people. It is also a blatantly retaliatory move, against federal workers and against unions, which have led the opposition to defend our communities and defeat the Project 2025 agenda.

Apparently, President Trump believes his job to be stripping rights from workers and students, persecuting immigrants, muzzling critics, and handing the governance of our country over to his billionaire cronies.

We know what our job is: to defend our campuses and communities and to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom, research that saves lives, and the institutions that provide crucial services that benefit every person residing in the US.

We will fight and we will win.