Summary
A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk from accessing sensitive Labor Department data, a major win for unions concerned about worker privacy.
The lawsuit, filed by federal employee unions, argued that DOGE’s demands posed a threat to labor rights.
Union leaders praised the decision as a safeguard against government overreach.
DOGE has also faced restrictions on Treasury Department access and has taken control of USAID and the Office of Personnel Management, sparking high-profile resignations.
I’m still salty how many people are still running around shit talking the unions like they haven’t done anything.
Just because mainstream news doesn’t mention it yet, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. If you’re not on a union mailing list, you’re not hearing about stuff till it gets to this point.
There’s a shit ton of lawsuits going on, mostly because the unions work hand in hand, so when one sues, they all sue.
It’s not like private sector, when fed unions fight the federal government, the federal government is often the side with less resources.
Unions are why we have labor rights.
Protests (often incredibly violent ones) are why we have unions.
*Note an accurate explanation of how we got our rights isn’t directly advocating for how to keep them or as advocacy for violence in any form, because that’s what unacceptable about this situation
And songs like “Which Side Are You On?” make it clear that it wasn’t easy.
I’ve seen Dylan live, but I didn’t know he made an original till right now…
I immediately thought of the Dead Prez version from a decade ago and wasn’t sure what was going on lol
Pete Seeger was the first to record it. I cannot recall who the original songwriter was but her husband was a miner and not a scab for JH Blair. I strongly suggest finding one if the live versions from the earlier days if you can. It’s a great song to hear thousands singing in unison especially when you know most were unionized
Was just coming to fix that lol.
I searched it and saw a B Dolan version from like a dozen years ago and got mixed up.
Pete is the guy Bob wanted to be as a kid
Also, remember that legal, regulated unions with a union steward empowered to negotiate are the compromise. The alternative was rioting mobs of factory workers.
In 1812 the forces of General Ludd attacked a mill near Manchester, which was defended by British soldiers and literal cannons. The reason why we have unions today is that dealing with unions was a more palatable option for the bosses than dealing with an angry mob.
Also, strikes are the more peaceful, more acceptable option that was a compromise vs. simply wrecking the machines.
All this time fighting against unions has meant the alternative to unions simply becomes more likely, and if the business owners think they hate unions, imagine how they’ll like angry mobs.
This lawsuit was headed by the AFL-CIO, which is a union of unions.
I was at my monthly meeting last night until 7:45, the meeting started at 4:30. Lots of people were concerned and discussing the attacks on the NLRB, DoL and OSHA; concerned about this administration’s anti-worker tilt.
Also - these unions are made up of hundreds of thousands of beaurocrats, and NOBODY knows the rules like beaurocrats.
Source: am municipal bureaucrat.
More importantly, bureaucrats who are used to politicians making kneejerk reactions and trying things they can’t do.
Bureaucrats used to planning ahead for multiple contingencies.
trump and Elmo aren’t chaotic forces, they’re incredibly predictable idiots. The unions arent scrambling to react like a disorganized mass of employees, they just shrug and pull the next packet of documents out of a drawer and follow the next step in the binder.
They don’t need to worry about flashy attorney fees, they have an army of beige suit lawyers who file boring and predictable arguments that were written before Elmo thought to put the current plan into motion. And they have the massive savings account to pay those boring lawyers for a very long time, because federal bureacrats are risk adverse and plan for raining days.
There’s a reason neoliberals play nice when they decimate the federal workforce.
The union can outlast a president.
Big Up, Mon!
He’s among my desktop figurines at the office. Here’s a heavily-cropped photo (too much identifiable info in the wide shot):
Nice! And the DMV sloth from Zootopia? Oh yeah, and I forgot one of the Bouvier sisters works in the DMV.
Also Roz from Monster’s Inc, who is obsessed with proper paperwork.
Nice, it’s good to have role models. :)
It’s like people who shit on Halo 1 without realizing that their favorite game wouldn’t have ever happened had Halo 1 not existed.
It’s hard for them to imagine what life was like before something came along and gave us improvements that they now take for granted.
People shit talk the unions because our unions are just a microcosm of the US. They are just as broken and corrupt as our government.
I didn’t ask for ran example, but yes that’s entirely the type of comment I’m talking about…
Just because you personally haven’t heard of something, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
That’s literally how trump thinks tho
Help organize better ones
Yes create a gigantic organization from scratch random internet person! Haha gottem.
Every gigantic organization was originally an idea some random internet person had. You seem to be unwilling to follow the logic.
TIL “help” means “do it all by yourself.”
A federal judge temporarily blocked
Such wow
Many stunning
To be honest, that there was any win at all is pretty shocking.
Not really. “Temporary” blocks are pretty common. Wake me up when they’re permanent.
Many of the delays in Trumps cases were also temporary blocks. Every monkey wrench in the facist machine helps.
True, it’s just difficult to celebrate.
Thank you for not falling into inescapable despair this day. Be well. We’re all struggling in some way right now. Take care of yourself and those around you as well as you can in these times. Disengage when you need to recharge. Just don’t give up.
Thank you for not falling into inescapable despair this day.
Despair is an often maligned experience to be erased and eradicated in modern society, but don’t fear despair.
Fear the people who are skilled at convincing you any length of life spent fleeing from your negative emotions is a preferable substitute to processing, embodying and grieving with those negative existential emotions and letting them lead you into radical action to save and protect your loved ones NOW.
Fall into despair, now is the time. Despair is the threshold to coming to peace with the fact that there is a good chance you don’t have a future, just this small time left.
Despair is the only thing that can get you to understand how frighteningly unstoppable you are when you realize there is no reason not to fight with absolutely everything you have for a better future NOW. In this moment despair makes you radically free in a way positive emotions can hardly do.
Nothing to celebrate, but it’s good to look around and see other’s digging in.
Remind me again how the Trump case went?
It was delayed until it didn’t matter. So delay’s can be effective.
Honestly what happens if they disobey the order?
They’ll just get a harshly worded letter or something
“Stunning” is such a sad word to use in this context.
News corps still acting like it’s a sports game.
Capitalism still acting like it’s an impressions game
Like a court order will stop them.
The court needs to order their arrest and detention.
AT this point the Court ordering a Firing Squad would only be met with a mildly annoyed “About fucking time” from moi
so trump can pardon them?
still it’d be worth it to see elmo in handcuffs do the perp walk
“stunning win” bullshit!
Get real, any small victory today is simply to maintain the rights that already existed and that were gradually taken away by neoliberal policies and not to move forward
“neo liberal”
Somehow still manages to blame anyone but conservatives…for things conservatives do.
Neoliberalism: A political theory of the late 1900s holding that personal liberty is maximized by limiting government interference in the operation of free markets.
This definition is simplistic. Neoliberalism goes beyond the “supposed” minimal State and the so-called “supposed” individual freedom. It also serves as an agenda of customs, the zeitgeist of our time and that permeates all human relationships where everything becomes commodity.
And yet the definition is still incomplete
Modern conservatives are neoliberals in most cases… so not only are you misunderstanding what the OP was trying to rightly highlight but your statement is also just plain wrong.
Modern conservatives are white nationalist christo reactionaries now. Maybe 20 years ago you could say all they wanted was limited government and control over economic policies, but not now.
You clearly don’t know what that word means
“I can’t beleive he didn’t critique the Nazis instead of our allies that are for some reason helping the Nazis!”
Union lawyers work their asses off as they are under constant barrage of top-down leaders trying to take control and wealthy attempting to subvert their existence. I wonder how much dues would go down if there were more worker protection laws. Trump going after unions is next on the list. You suck if you’re not a part of your workplace union.
In a just world he would have all of his skin ripped off by a mob.
you think the one person who downvoted this was musk on his fediverse alt account?
He’s a terminally online incel so probably
A real win would involve fElon and his dogebois being given a one-way trip to Gitmo.
You misspelled gallows.
I’m still waiting to see if the second amendment is actually real.
So did they unplug the server, or what proof do we have he stopped? There’s no consequences for these people for breaking the law anyway.
“Diabolical Oligarch Grifting Efficiently”
Efficiently? Really?
How about Evilly? Eagerly? Excitedly? Embarrassingly? Endlessly? Eternally? Enormously? Or, if nothing else, Erectly?
He knows he won’t be able to grift forever so he moves fast and (often intentionally) breaks things. If you need an E word, there is edaciously but that’s not very well-known.
Finally a judge with spine. Musk’s data-grubbing circus hits a wall as unions claw back crumbs of dignity from his corporate vultures. DOGE’s “mission” was always just surveillance cosplay—now they’re caught red-handed trying to vacuum up worker DNA under the noble guise of “efficiency.”
Meanwhile, Treasury’s slamming doors while USAID and OPM get strip-mined in Musk’s fire sale of democracy. Those high-profile resignations? Smartest career move since rats fled the Titanic.
The real win? Watching billionaire tantrums when someone says “no” to their data-hoarding octopus arms. Next target: his Mars colonization tax dodge.
“stunning win”
Yes I noticed that too. Interesting choice of words eh? From whose perspective?
