Administration has stripped hundreds of thousands of their union contracts as White House says it is just getting started
The Trump administration has unilaterally stripped hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union contracts after a federal appeals court overruled an injunction which halted the plans. It is just getting started, according to the White House.
An executive order issued in March sought to cancel all collective bargaining agreements for most federal employees, citing national security concerns – and remove collective bargaining rights from more than a million workers.
While unions including the American Federation of Government Employees launched legal action as they challenged the move, obtaining an injunction, this was in effect overruled earlier this month.
Union contracts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture have since been terminated. An estimated 400,000 have been affected, about 2.6% of unionized workers in the US.
teft@piefed.social 2 days ago
You as workers hold the power. If he tries to fuck with unions then every union that isn’t capital aligned (looking at you pig union) should go on strike. The government will quickly capitulate if no one is working. Even if it’s illegal to strike. We aren’t getting out of this situation without a little pain.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
You know they won’t go after the pig unions for that reason.