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| White House office moves to limit union rights for federal employees | |
| 2025-03-29 | |
[JustTheNews] The memo cites authority issued under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, which Trump is also using to end collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that represent agencies with national security missions.
The memo cites authority issued under the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act, which Trump is also using to end collective bargaining agreements with federal unions that represent agencies with national security missions, per a White House Fact Sheet. The order impacts all agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department, Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the General Services Administration, and more. “Consequently, those agencies and subdivisions are no longer required to collectively bargain with Federal unions,” OPM states in its memo, according to The Hill. “Because the statutory authority underlying the original recognition of the relevant unions no longer applies, unions lose their status as the ‘exclusive[ly] recogni[zed]’ labor organizations for employees of the agencies.” The executive order has not officially been posted as of press time. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #9 People have a constitutional right to free association, peaceful assembly and the right of petition. They do not have the right to strike against the sovereign elected government of the people. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-29 21:02 |
| #8 The industrial union adversarial model is problematic for public-sector workers--the result is inevitably adversarial, inescapably political, and as experience shows, often becomes a Praetorian Guard. |
| Posted by: James the lesser 2025-03-29 18:25 |
| #7 Declare all governmental unions insurrectionists for attempting to overthrow the government via blackmail and strong arm tactics. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2025-03-29 14:16 |
| #6 Franklin Roosevelt actively opposed Government Unions of any kind, just saying. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-03-29 10:07 |
| #5 Unions did so well for the USPS. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2025-03-29 09:58 |
| #4 ...NN2N1 speaks wisdom. On top of that, public employee unions, at the local or Federal levels, long ago became nothing more than a mechanism to provide ever-growing benefits to those employees and return a not-insubstantial amount of cash to the Democratic Party. And that is the true cause of the howls coming from the unions this morning. Calvin Coolidge - yes, that one - said "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time," when the Boston Police went on strike, and he was right. And public employee unions have no right to contribute to or endorse any politician any where, any time. One last point - the best part of this is that if the unions protest in any way other than statements by their leaders, they will be slitting their own throats. No civilian will sympathize with them, and they'll be handing POTUS an almighty big hammer. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2025-03-29 08:52 |
| #3 The national government is sovereign. By that definition it can not negotiate with a subset of the population on these issues. They are not equal. The unions already have their representatives whom they fund and elect to Congress. They don't get two votes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-29 07:08 |
| #2 Do I think Federal Workers should have a Union? NO. They already have strict Federal Wage & Hour, work environment rules, annual COLA adjustments and retirement plans. All, far better than a majority of the private sector workers have now. While I support the worker level efforts of fair wage and safe working conditions, that Unions were originally designed for. The leadership of too many Unions have decided to play Politics with Union funds and numbers, instead of staying focused on their union members. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-29 07:06 |
| #1 Rescind EO 10988 - EO by Kennedy allowing federal employee unionization |
| Posted by: Gloluns Turkeyneck4904 2025-03-29 06:06 |