Posted on 03/30/2025 1:02:28 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
❓What Happened: President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end collective bargaining with federal unions in several agencies tied to national security. This action uses authority from the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
👥 Who’s Involved: President Donald J. Trump, Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of State, Department of Energy (DOE), and others.
📍 Where & When: The White House, recent Executive Order signing.
💬 Key Quote: “President Trump supports constructive partnerships with unions who work with him; he will not tolerate mass obstruction that jeopardizes his ability to manage agencies with vital national security missions,” the White House said in a statement.
⚠️ Impact: The order aims to ensure that agencies central to national security can operate without delays and intrusive union restrictions, affecting the implementation of policies and management decisions.
President Donald J. Trump has signed an Executive Order to terminate collective bargaining agreements with federal unions in agencies associated with national security. This decision, made under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, involves ending union negotiations within pivotal government entities such as the Department of Defense (D0D), Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Coast Guard. These agencies have essential roles, such as healthcare for troops, military research, and safeguarding national borders.
Besides defense, the order impacts border security, foreign relations, energy security, pandemic preparedness, cybersecurity, economic defense, and public safety. Within these sectors, departments like Homeland Security (DHS), Justice (DOJ), State, and Energy (DOE) will see collective bargaining with federal unions halted.
The move is meant to eliminate delays and impediments in policy implementation associated with union negotiations. President Trump points to the challenges posed by union activities as obstacles in executing crucial national security measures. Union contracts, often renegotiated under the former administration, impede the ability of agencies to modify policies as swiftly as necessary, especially during ongoing security threats.
For instance, unions have been able to delay adjustments to cybersecurity protocols, citing the need for bargaining rights. This has proven problematic for agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Executive Order explicitly aims to counteract such obstructions, emphasizing a move toward more prompt and decisive governance.
Unions, considered adversarial by the administration, have filed numerous grievances against Trump administration policies, as demonstrated by the Veterans Affairs unions’ significant volume of actions taken since his inauguration. The administration argues that such union participation undermines the effectiveness of national security operations.
Official White House Photo by Molly Riley.
A more precise title might be "President Trump Ends Collective Bargaining in National Security Agencies," as it better reflects the complete halt described in the text. The title’s wording introduces some ambiguity that the article resolves.
It’s been a “few’years, but I thought President Reagan rendered unions ineffective. It had to do with flight controllers wanting to go on strike. Reagan won. I don’t remember the fine details but lawyers for the current administration might find some value in examining that situation.
trafic controllers wenton strike. Reagan told them to get back to work or be fired..he fired those that did not go back to work
The stupidest thing ever done was to allow government agencies to unionize they are not of the public work force they work FOR the government.
Guess where and when the swap was born.
When does an EO end the bargaining with the rest of them?
JFK.
“Executive Order 10988 is a United States presidential executive order issued by President John F. Kennedy on January 17, 1962 that granted federal employees the right to collective bargaining. This executive order was a breakthrough for public sector workers, who were not protected under the 1935 Wagner Act.”
Federal unions cannot strike and they cannot make any demands whatsoever.
However through collective bargaining they can slowly reduce managements ability to manage. When a contract comes up for renewal the negotiations begin. Management typically gives a little here and a little there.
It’s sorta like the GOP reaching over the aisle to the other side. That other side, being the rats, never give an inch. As a result it’s a one way street that got us where we are at today.
Eliminating unions in certain federal agencies will automatically eliminate any collective bargaining agreements giving management full control over workers.
For serious grievances, the department IG or the congress office will always be available. So it’s not like they are screwed.
Getting back to Regan, the ATC people did strike. That’s automatic termination.
“When does an EO end the bargaining with the rest of them?”
given the extensive list of exclusions in the EO, this EO eliminates collective bargaining for almost ALL of the FedGov on national security grounds ...
Ten days after the election, on Nov. 17, 2017, National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers traveled to Trump Tower without authorization from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Rogers shocks President-elect Trump by telling him the FBI and DOJ under false pretenses (using theFusion GPS dossier with Trump’s name removed) to obtain FISA Court approval to conduct electronic surveillance of Trump and his top aides. Rogers tells Trump that all his emails and phone calls in Trump Tower are being recorded by the NSA.
The next day, Nov. 18, 2016, Trump moves his entire transition team to Bedminister, New Jersey. Trump realizes that every day he stays in D.C., he is likely under “Deep State” electronic surveillance. Trump must maintain Bedminister, N.J., and Mar-a-Lago in Florida secure facilities where FBI and DOJ Deep State operatives could never get FISA court permission to conduct electronic surveillance. The White House is not a secure facility. Quite the contrary, the White House is particularly vulnerable to leaks.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3619725/posts
What we really need is to get unions out of state and local governments. Way out of control.
Government jobs only have unions so the democrats can take their dues
On top of that, ALL financial negotiations with unions subvert the Constitution.
The House must not only approve “raises” but \propose\ them for each bargaining unit.
And raises built into union contracts amount to taxation without representation for us.
DemocRats love unions because they contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to their campaign coffers every election cycle despite the majority of their members being conservatives.
Inaccurate.
Unions embezzle the money appropriated to fulfill their budgets and launder it through Soros to fund subversive activities.
Will this case be randomly assigned to judge Boasberg?
What parts of the fedgov would still have collective bargaining?
A judge out west will rule against this by the end of the day tomorrow.
Federal employees - even unionized ones - can’t strike. That’s what the air traffic controllers did wrong and which got them fired.
I recall that
Where is Admiral Rogers now...?
He needs a place in the new administration.
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