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President Donald Trump moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him un...
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President Trump has signed an executive order to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government.
The president is trying to strip hundreds of thousands of federal workers of union representation and labor protections.
The lawsuit states collective bargaining agreements with federal employees are a “serious impediment to effective agency operations and national security."
An as-yet unpublished executive order purports to utilize a little-used provision allowing the president to restrict collective bargaining for national security reasons to exempt most federal jobs from union protections.
President Trump took aim at collective bargaining for federal employees in certain agencies with an executive order he signed Thursday.
President Donald Trump signed the executive order under the Civil Service Reform Act to end collective bargaining with federal unions at agencies with national security missions.
Denouncing executive order, head of American Federation of Government Employees says it is preparing to take legal action and will ‘fight relentlessly’ - Anadolu Ajansı
President Donald Trump says protecting national security gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with labor unions across most of the federal government