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The Felon's War on Federal Workers Continues [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
Trump instructed a broad swath of government agencies on Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal unions, a major escalation in his effort to assert more control over the federal work force.
Mr. Trump framed the order as critical to protect national security. But it targets agencies across the government, including the Departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, State, Treasury and Energy, most of the Justice Department, and parts of the Departments of Commerce, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services.
“This administration’s bullying tactics represent a clear threat not just to federal employees and their unions, but to every American who values democracy and the freedoms of speech and association,” Everett Kelley, the union’s president, said in a statement. “Trump’s threat to unions and working people across America is clear: fall in line or else.”
This coming on top of the administration’s effort to bust the TSA, which is in court. The wrinkle in this is that the administration took the initial legal action. In a friendly circuit.
The American Federation of Government Employees said Mr. Trump’s order was illegal.
After Mr. Trump signed the order, the affected agencies filed a lawsuit on Thursday in Texas against the unions representing federal employees, seeking to rescind their collective bargaining agreements.
The AFGE should respond by bringing its own legal action in a different circuit.
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