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The order is aimed at stopping federal unions who have “declared war on President Trump’s agenda,” according to a fact sheet from the White House attached to the order, which aims to strip the collective-bargaining rights of more than 1 million federal workers.
President Donald Trump is trying to revoke collective bargaining rights from most federal employees — the latest move in his aggressive campaign to weaken the federal workforce. Trump issued an executive order late Thursday night relying on a rarely used provision of the federal labor laws that authorizes the president to exclude agencies from long-standing unionization rights if he determines that those agencies are primarily engaged in national security work.
President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. That could affect thousands of federal workers in Kansas City.
Donald Trump dissolved contracts with federal unions. Protesters in Ann Arbor — and top Michigan Democrats — fear it will hurt veterans and workers.
At a news conference on Capitol Hill, the president of the nation’s largest union, supporting 800,000 federal employees, lashed out at Trump.
Judy Kurtz chats with The Hill’s Mychael Schnell after President Trump signs an executive order ending union rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees. What it means and what’s next for workers.
The administration is trying to use a national security exemption to eliminate union rights for hundreds of thousands of workers.
The Writers Guild of America East pulled no punches today in decrying Donald Trump’s executive order to strip many workers of their right to unionize, calling Thursday’s move an “illegal attack on roughly 700,