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…
(Excerpt) Read more at defenseone.com ...
If the US goes to war with anyone, guess who’s the first person that goes into a cage?
Fantastic! I despise government unions.
Trump appears to have reentered the White House with a think tank full of advisory research.
No individual person could even find so many references and facts so rapidly
All public sector unions negotiate their pay packages with no taxpayer representation at the table. In these negotiations your elected rep is now a gubmint representative, not your representative. Since the gubmint considers tax revenue to be infinite, there is no pressure to limit the union demands. This is the primary reason (among many others) to abolish public sector unions.
I have always had a problem with unionized government employees as those unions tend to make substantial political contributions to the elected officials who govern them. Perhaps if government employee unions were strictly forbidden from making any political contributions and barred their members from any participation in political campaigns.
Even the collective bargaining contracts with government employee unions are problematic as it can circumvent the legislative budgeting process. I recall some years ago in Iowa where the union contract for wage increases ran into a legislative problem when the state was facing a budget shortfall.
Good. It is asinine to allow a union, sponsored/controlled by the gov’mt, to negotiate with another arm of the same govm’t. Total conflict of interest.
Void them all.
All unions need to be ended. You don’t like your pay, go find another job. After that union leader who yelled at one of the rallies threatening to crush the nation and hurt the people, just no.
Government unions are negotiating with a company with unlimited resources (as you said, their taxing power). They never take pay cuts, and get annual Cost of Living increases virtually guaranteed every year.
P.S. Not to mention job security and pensions the private sector can only get in their wildest dreams..
Trump shook down the Govt unions and won. Security flush as we speak.
Trump goes and takes my bad thoughts away!
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