Triangle-area federal union workers and labor activists rallied Sunday against the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce and cut the government’s size and scope.
Union leaders representing workers at the Social Security Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Postal Service decried the efforts of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency — led by Elon Musk and championed by President Donald Trump — to identify federal spending that can be cut, saying the group’s actions so far have been haphazard and rash.
Rally-goers standing in front of the Terry Sanford federal building in downtown Raleigh sang the decades-old song “Roll the Union On” and held up signs ranging from “stop the war on America’s workforce” to one that called Musk a “terrible president” and another that said “Nixon and McCarthy weren’t this bad.”…