The Hill reports:
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said Thursday that President Trump signed an executive order limiting numerous agency employees from unionizing and instructing the government to stop engaging in any collective bargaining.
The OPM memo references an order from Trump, but it is an accompanying fact sheet from the White House that lays out the rationale for the movie, claiming that the Civil Service Reform Act allowing government workers to unionize “enables hostile Federal unions to obstruct agency management.”
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), condemned the action in an email to its members, saying the Trump administration was “illegally strip[ping] collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
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Trump literally cited the number of lawsuits that unions had filed against his illegal actions as justification for his EO busting unions.
This is political revenge to shut us up, plain and simple.
— Lauren Miller (@laurenmiller.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Trump admin just illegally stripped collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal workers in 18 different departments across multiple agencies.
The regime stated that “Certain Federal unions have declared war on President Trump’s agenda.”
www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/…— Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 11:47 PM
President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet, signing an executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining for government employees whose work include national security aspects.
— CNN (@cnn.com) March 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM