Federal Worker Unions Blast Musk Demand for Staff Task Lists (1)

Feb. 23, 2025, 8:17 PM UTCUpdated: Feb. 24, 2025, 2:44 AM UTC

Federal worker unions denounced billionaire Elon Musk‘s directive that government employees respond to an email by Monday asking them what they “accomplished” last week.

The message is “un-American,” Doreen Greenwald, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in a statement.

Musk on Saturday wrote on his social media platform X that any failure to respond would be “taken as a resignation.” Federal employees across government agencies reported receiving a message the same day from hr@opm.gov asking for five examples of their work by Monday at 11:59 p.m. ET.

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