“What we’ve seen over these last seven months is an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, compensation, safety, and well being,” he said.

“It is unprecedented in the history of the United States of America that so many rights & protections have been rolled back, lawlessly & recklessly, to the detriment not only of the working people directly affected, but also their families and other workers who are going to be affected eventually.”

Trump signed an executive order Thursday, claiming national security exclusions from a nearly 50-year old executive order, stripping collective bargaining rights from employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, the National Weather Service and others.

The order builds on an earlier order he issued in March which removed collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of workers using the same exemption. Affected agencies included the Departments of Defense, State, Treasury, Justice and many others.

The senator said that the Trump administration has rolled back occupational safety and health reporting standards, eliminated minimum wage and overtime protections, as well as affirmative action requirements, and removed collective bargaining requirements for federal employees.

“Eliminating collective bargaining rights is not only illegal, it’s immoral,” Blumenthal said. “And this administration is sustaining this attack on American workers, hoping that on this Labor Day, Americans will be so busy with barbecues and beaches, they won’t pay any attention.”