Former Acting Secretary of Labor Calls On Students to 'Fight For Federal Government Employees' at HLS Talk

Julie Su, the former U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Joe Biden, condemned President Donald Trump’s attempts to slash the federal civil service. She challenged attendees of Tuesday’s Harvard Law School discussion to stand up against the Trump administration’s efforts.

“You need to fight for federal government employees — not just because it’s the right thing to do for them, but because it really is about working people’s rights and the power of unions,” Su said.

“We’re in a moment where everybody has to ask: ‘What are we doing to protect the rights that were hard run, the systems that are needed to make our country function, and the democracy that we live under?’” Su said.

“I think it’s the job of all the rest of us who are not in the federal civil service to stand with them, to put our bodies against that machine,” she added.

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