Summary
Trump is nullifying federal employee union contracts negotiated in Biden’s final days.
Affected contracts include one with the Education Department ratified just before his inauguration. Trump cited a 2010 Supreme Court decision to justify his stance but did not provide a clear legal basis.
Federal employee unions, representing 800,000 workers, vowed legal action, calling Trump’s move unlawful intimidation.
This continues Trump’s prior efforts to weaken job protections, with additional plans to reclassify and lay off civil servants.
Nah, academia?? I’ve worked there directly, it’s far far from1:6 unless I’m misunderstanding you.
I’m pulling numbers from the vagaries of books and articles read years ago, so accuracy probably isn’t great on that.
From the wikipedia page, it looks like there’s a fair bit of controversy about what polling really means, what it’s collecting, and whether it’s worth anything at all, but estimates for splits on the political divide definitely and routinely place more people on the liberal side than conservative, at ratios as incredible [in a ‘whoah, really’ way more than me caring, just because it seems like we have a 1:1:1 split of Dem/Rep/don’t-give-a-fuck in voting numbers) as 28:1 in some places (New England, apparently).