Anti-MUSC events meet in the Saint-Louis region

The crowd regularly attracted klonnages and cheers of passers -by, even in this relatively conservative corner of the County of St. Louis.

It was the first demonstration for Ryan Walsh, engineer of Arnold. “I’m really not satisfied with what’s going on around us in the government, with Elon Musk,” said Walsh. “I have family members threatened with layoffs in Virginia. And my Congress members do not seem to worry about it. ”

It was only one of the three demonstrations against the Trump administration reduction campaign on Saturday, extending from the Passerelle Arc to the Tesla dealership in Chesterfield.

They coincided with the national rallies against Musk, that President Donald Trump instructed to rationalize a federal workforce that Trump thinks of being ineffective and working against his program.

Musk, whose property of Tesla made him the richest man in the world, responded to the mandate with enthusiasm, taking teams of young engineers to federal agencies and calling for billions of dollars in discounts of expenses and staff.

Until now, around 50,000 employees have been dismissed, according to a count of the New York Times. At least 170,000 others are on the blocking. Although many of them are disputed in court.

The musk effort has also prompted the government to cancel the contracts, in particular those which focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, and to unload real estate, including buildings in the Saint-Louis region.

The day of the demonstrations in Saint-Louis began in the city center in front of the ark, where hundreds met with labor leaders representing federal workers and a series of local politicians to protest against the cuts of federal labor.

They said Musk is an oligarch to destroy the middle class. And they promised to fight against a decree that Trump signed Thursday abolishing more than a million workers in collective negotiation rights.

Fred Redmond, secretary-treasurer of AFL-CIO, said that the attack on federal unions, which were a key element in the administration resistance, would spread to the private sector if they were without control.

“Our children and grandchildren will keep us responsible for what we have done right now,” he said. “It is a fight for the very soul of our country.”

Others in the crowd rugged their approval in a series of songs.

Deb Cottin, from St. Louis, was on site to support the workers. She said that the Trump administration had unnecessarily mean good people making significant jobs.

“It’s a farce,” she said.

Tyler Wilson, who works in local policy, deplored the cuts already made. “It is 50,000 people who have lost the jobs who feed their family,” he said.

Back on South Lindbergh, Sean Miller said he had organized the demonstration because he was himself affected by the cuts.

“It could be my social security at risk, my Medicare,” he said while the demonstrators chanted and cars horny behind him.

Miller, by South St. Louis, has muscular dystrophy. He works part-time as a receptionist in a local health office, and he needs each money in which he came, he said.

“If I even lost a part of my social security, I would be in profound do,” he said.

The more afternoon appeared at the Tesla dealer on Chesterfield Airport Road, south of the Interstate 64.

A dealer employee estimated nearly 200 on the sidewalk.

In the middle of the afternoon, the demonstrators had left.

But eight cybertrucks were still lined up up there in the southern side of the dealer’s car park.

They blocked the point of view, the employee said, demonstrators of the exhibition hall.