By Wastewater Management Mechanic Cricket Logan, St. Pete, FL
As a mechanic at a wastewater facility in Florida, my job is essential, but often overlooked.
Too many public jobs are overlooked—but we’re fighting back.
It’s simple: when folks flush their toilets or wash their hands, they don’t think about the waste facility miles up the road that ensures waste is dealt with. When hurricanes roll through town in my home state, Florida’s politicians aren’t thinking about the workers who have to sleep at the facility and work through the night to handle the influx of water.
Public jobs, like mine, are what keep our country going. We keep Social Security payments coming in the mail, healthcare accessible in every type of community, our parks safe, and children fed at school.
For those reasons and more, the attacks on public service workers, and our collective bargaining rights, are despicable.
I experienced this in Florida in 2023, and now Trump’s newest executive order—which strips federal workers of their collective bargaining rights—is a blatant assault on federal workers’ rights.
We must share why these attacks will only make our communities and families worse off, not better.
>> Share my story on Facebook to show Americans that our work can’t be discarded.
And let me be clear: this is an attack on all workers, not just federal workers and state or municipal public workers like me.
If elected officials succeed in dismantling federal worker unions, then all our unions will be under attack—and our movement to ensure unions for ALL workers, Black, brown, Asian, immigrant and white, will be severely threatened.
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Ultimately, this isn’t about efficiency—this is about control. The powerful and wealthy want to keep workers down. They want to find ways to fill their own pockets and grow their power. The less we can fight back, the better for them. But we aren’t letting them win—we’ll continue to stand strong.
Another way to help? Donate to support federal union workers who are fighting back. We need to have our union family's backs.
