Posted on 04/01/2025 6:12:15 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order purporting to outlaw collective bargaining across two-thirds of the federal government, citing a little-used provision of federal labor law that invokes national security.
A "fact sheet" says the order applies a rarely used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act that allows the president to exclude agencies and their offices from collective bargaining rules that “cannot be applied to that agency or subdivision in a manner consistent with national security requirements.”
Trump first considered using this authority in early 2020, granting then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper the ability to exclude the Pentagon from federal labor law. Following bipartisan pushback in Congress, Esper elected not to use the authority.
According to the White House, Trump’s new edict “ends collective bargaining” with unions at the Defense, State, Veterans Affairs, Justice, and Energy departments, as well as portions of the Homeland Security, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Interior, and Agriculture departments.
The International Trade Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, National Science Foundation, International Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission and General Services Administration also are no longer subject to federal labor law, nor are chief information officers’ offices across government.
All told, the agencies covered by Trump’s order employ 67% of federal workers, and three-quarters of feds represented by unions…
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GREAT!
Good, because it is a national security threat. Even FDR did not fall for that stupid desire that many wanted him to do but he knew better.
Great! FDR opposed government unions.
Federal employee unions are money laundries against the American people.
When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.”
The very idea of a union of government employees is anathema to the public security of a Republic......................
JFK really screwed the pooch with his EO authorizing government unionization. The SEIU should die.
It used to be, you went into government partly because it was a highly secure if lower paying job, and perhaps a bit for the service aspect.
Now, the benefits and job security are second to none.
Anyone who is paid through the extraction of monies from citizens by force of law shall or should be required to serve those same citizens by that same force of law - or be fired, fined, jailed, and banished!
He’s keeping them on defense. Sure he will get pushback but all these cases will need to be decided at scotus.
We also have significant real risks of war with China Russia and Iran. In the case of an actual war, they really couldn’t really stop this at all.
Much of the US Government does deal with National Security issues, or at least that’s why they’ve ALWAYS been telling Republicans at Congressional Hearings.
So adios, BIG LABOR, even your Number 1 cheerleader here won’t be able to stop Trump on this issue.
GREAT! Government employees never should be allowed to form unions...at any level of government. If they are uncomfortable with that, they should leave being what they often call being “public servants”.
“You can’t do that”
Love,
Judge Boasberg
If he is able to pull this off, federal workers return to being public servants not union members.
Govt workers are part of our national security. Imagine soldiers having the right to strike.
Who is the big labor cheerleader?
Most union members in the United States are government employees.
government unions can’t strike,
I know. Reagan took care that. I was passing along FDR’s comments.
Even FDR was famously opposed to government employee unions because they’re a conflict of interest. The union dues support those politicians who support the unions.
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