“Profit over people.”, the unofficial slogan of capitalism. The bourgeois class have held this belief close to their hearts since the 16th century. In modern times nothing has changed. Capitalists are still choosing profits over people and they have now expanded to choosing “machines over workers”. In 2025 personal finance and trading education platform, RationalFX, counted 245,000 tech sector layoffs with about 70,000 being tied to AI adoption and automation. In the first six weeks of 2026 there were 30,700 layoffs in the tech sector connected to AI adoption and automation. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says,

“White-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”

Companies do not care if workers become unemployed and financially destitute. Andrew Yang, CEO at Noble Mobile and a former United States presidential candidate gave his take on the current issue of AI displacement in the workplace by explaining,

“As one company starts to streamline, all of their competitors will follow suit. It will become a competition because the stock market will reward you if you cut headcount and punish you if you don’t. Millions of workers are about to be given their pink slips.”

As of 2025 3 in 10 companies have admitted that they have already begun replacing workers with AI. They estimate that by the end of 2026 that 37% of workers will be replaced by AI. In a survey 1,000 United States capitalists have admitted to slowing down on hiring workers, 39% have laid off workers in 2025, 35% say they would layoff workers before the end of 2025, and 58% say they will conduct layoffs in 2026. These leeches have shamelessly expressed that employees who lack AI-related skills and entry-level workers face the highest risks for layoffs. These layoffs have been described as, “serial layoffs”, due to the rapid and systematic termination rates in companies.

This is a form of “reactive workforce management” which has led to a drop in morale amongst workers and caused a major loss of critical skills. A report published by the restaurant consulting firm, Aaron Allen & Associates, estimated that 80% of restaurant jobs will become automated. The study results show that 51% of server jobs will be automated. It is estimated that 57% of fast-food and counter workers will be replaced by machines. Some companies that have already started to make these changes are, but not limited to, Chipotle, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and the Jamaican Patty franchise, Juici Patties.

These blood sucking companies and the financial vampires known as their owners have exploited the minds and bodies of workers for centuries, now they feel as if workers are a burden and outdated. Due to this they have seen it fit to replace us with wires, circuit boards, metal, and plastic. They have once again chosen profits over people by choosing machines over workers. 

            (Gross, Grant. “Push to Replace Workers with AI Faces Backlash — Even from Management.” CIO, 28 Feb. 2026, www.cio.com/article/4138743/push-to-replace-workers-with-ai-faces-backlash-even-from-management.html.)

            (Moody, Kathryn. “Nearly 4 in 10 Companies Will Replace Workers with AI by 2026, Survey Shows.” HR Dive, 22 Sept. 2025, www.hrdive.com/news/companies-will-replace-workers-with-ai-by-2026/760729/.)           

(“80% of Restaurant Jobs Could Be Taken over by Robots.” Adeccogroup.com, 2020, www.adeccogroup.com/our-thinking/articles-and-editorials/80-of-restaurant-jobs-could-be-taken-over-by-robots.)

            (Scinto, Maria. “5 Fast Food Chains That Have Already Started Using AI.” The Takeout, 22 Feb. 2026, www.thetakeout.com/2104709/fast-food-chains-started-using-ai/.)

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Airport workers continue to feel pinched as the funding for airport screening with workers at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) remains frozen for now over five weeks. Over 50,000 workers are in the second stretch of work without pay in the last 6 months. In fall 2025, there was a 43-day shutdown that forced workers to work for over 50 days without pay.

TSA workers are classified as “Emergency Response Officials”, so even when there is a government shutdown or funding lapse, they still have to show up to work. TSA is also on a different pay system from the rest of the federal workers that pays much less. This is by design when the agency was formed in the wake of September 11, 2001. The TSA only recently won the right to collective bargaining in court and there is legislation to pay them at the same pay system of other federal workers. These victories have been rolled back by the Trump regime as it wages its war on workers.

Over 370 workers have quit since the current shutdown began. Others have taken side work either in gig economy jobs or selling plasma just to make ends meet and pay bills. Workers are frustrated as they are being run to exhaustion with no pay. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Agency the TSA is under, has issued letters to workers asking creditors for leniency or late fees to be waived, though workers are finding those inefficient in the second shutdown as some are sleeping out of their vehicles, bank accounts overdrawn, empty pantries and refrigerators, and evictions from homes.

Airports have opened food pantries, donation centers, and are now asking travelers for donations. Officials have warned that some smaller airports “may be shut down” as about 10% of the TSA workers have failed to show for work daily.

Politicians in Congress have offered no help as both Democrats and Republicans blame each other and have put forward proposals to pay workers but no progress has been made yet. The Trump regime engages in violations of the Hatch Act by blaming the shutdown on political opponents, but offers no concrete solutions. Federal workers are barred by law from striking courtesy of Ronald Reagan firing striking air traffic controllers in the 1980s.

LUEL calls on elected officials to pay workers a fair wage during this shutdown in an industry that is important for everyone. Airports have wide-reaching effects on their local area, and slowdowns and shutdowns hurt American workers. The way forward for workers in the airline industry is to band together in a mass anti-monopoly coalition with the other airport workers, pilots, flight attendants, and others to demand the monopoly capitalists pay workers a fair and just wage even during a government shutdown. Workers must join together in mass action to put pressure on those that hold the economy and workers hostage.

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This coincides with President Trump’s appointment of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to a new agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE is tasked with “tackling government bureaucracy and streamlining processes” of the US Government. This would put the NLRB in its crosshairs as it is supposed to be a check on the autocracy of corporations in the US. Musk’s role in this proposed initiative is a direct conflict of interest considering Musk’s legal fight against the NLRB.

We must ask the question, who elected Musk? How has an oligarch been put into a position to oversee a government apparatus supposedly aimed at being a check on tyrannical rule? Of course, these appointments have been a consistent feature of the US state apparatus, but the appointment of Musk, who spent over $200 million of his own money to get Trump elected, is in effect doing the quiet part out loud. This is an indication of how the NLRB and workers’ rights in general will fare during Trump’s second administration.

To add insult to injury, the Democratic majority during the “lame duck” session of the last Congress failed to re-confirm NLRB Chair, Lauren McFerran, which would have maintained a pro-worker NLRB for the first two years of Trump’s administration. With so-called “friends of labor” like this, who needs enemies? By design, this failure has handed a hobbled NLRB over to a Trump regime hell-bent on stripping away workers’ rights. Now, Trump has fired other members of the NLRB, including General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and Former Chair Gwynne Wilcox, leaving the Board without a quorum.

The current situation among the misleaders of labor is an over-reliance on the administrative state to protect the rights which militant rank-and-file workers fought and died for. LUEL exists because we see the imperative for the US labor movement to regain its militancy in a class-oriented fight against capital. Only this can ensure a strong future for both the labor movement and the working-class as a whole in the United States.

In solidarity,
Labor United Educational League

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In its decision, the NLRB ruled that going forward companies are no longer able to use the captive audience meeting to force workers to listen to their anti-union diatribes used to convince workers that the bosses “have their best interests at heart”. Unfortunately, this ruling does not go far enough as it still allows so-called voluntary meetings, “so long as workers are provided reasonable advance notice of: the subject of any such meeting, that attendance is voluntary with no adverse consequences for failure to attend, and that no attendance records of the meeting will be kept.”

Given the precedent set by the Supreme Court’s overruling of the 1984 Chevron Decision earlier this year this is likely to provide cover for the bosses to continue this practice with little recourse. The striking down of the Chevron Decision has limited the ability of federal agencies to interpret the laws they are tasked to enforce.

Labor United Educational League stands in solidarity with all worker-organizers who take up the mantel to challenge monopolies such as Amazon. We cannot solely rely on NLRB administrative law to protect us. Only a mass, class-oriented fight can defeat the monopolists.

In solidarity,
Labor United Educational League

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