Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections

As seen in the New York Times:

President Trump expanded his wide-reaching effort to strip union protections from federal employees on Thursday, signing an executive order that commanded roughly half a dozen government agencies to end their collective bargaining agreements with unions representing their employees.

Those agencies included NASA; the National Weather Service and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service; the United States Agency for Global Media, which manages federally funded news agencies like Voice of America; the Office of the Commissioner for Patents; and units of the Bureau of Reclamation that operate 53 hydroelectric power plants across the country.

If the agencies comply with the order, union employees will lose the rights and protections provided by the collective bargaining agreements. Those rights typically include the right to have work disputes resolved by a neutral arbitrator and to have union stewards and leaders be granted official time on the job to work on cases and participate in collective contract negotiations.