Federal employee union members have been speaking out, rallying, and suing, as agency after agency has been hit by Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)—a private unaccountable entity which has been demanding access to all government records while spreading wild lies about waste and fraud.
Federal workers raised the alarm at over 30 “Save our Services” rallies around the country Wednesday, including in New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Philadelphia, Denver, Boston, Boise, Chattanooga and Chicago.
“The only way we have out of this is if the federal workforce on the front lines puts out a call to the broader labor movement and enters the streets and makes this a political crisis that they cannot manage,” said Chris Dols, president of [International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFTPE)] Local 98 at the Army Corps of Engineers, at one of three Wednesday Save Our Services rallies in New York City.
Dols is one of the leaders of a new group, the Federal Unionists Network, which called the protests. Using lists they had been building for months and contacts made through the explosion of energy over the past weeks, members called federal union activists around the country, asking them to bottom-line local actions. Many of these rallies were endorsed by local or national chapters of federal worker unions.
Workers at the CFPB, at Social Security, and at IRS, charged that Musk’s minions have been grabbing the public’s data with no oversight or accountability.
Spencer Gould, vice president of NTEU chapter 47 at the IRS in New York said that the unions are the front line of defense as Elon Musk and Trump “are grabbing the personal data of every American, to do who knows what for who knows who.”
“They are smashing the institutions that are the parts of government that house the democracy of our country,” he said. Musk is head of a private entity, DOGE, and neither DOGE nor his appointment to lead it was brought before Congress
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