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The termination of protections followed an Aug 1 appeals court ruling on legal challenges to Trump’s directive. The order, signed in late March, directed 22 agencies to ignore contracts for employees in specific #unions. Last Thursday, #Trump signed a 2nd EO stripping #union rights from thousands of other employees at 6 additional agencies.
#Trump said that the affected workers had roles that touched on #NationalSecurity, & that provisions in their #labor contracts could interfere with his policies being carried out. He cited, for example, the role that Dept of #VeteransAffairs employees play in providing care for wounded troops in wartime.
#Federal labor #unions targeted in the EOs have repeatedly sued the #Trump admin, & in some cases forced the admin to temporarily pause Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal work force & reshape the government. The American Federation of Government Employees [#AFGE] has filed more than a dozen lawsuits related to the federal work force. The White House has likened this to a declaration of “war.”
So far, 9 agencies have terminated #union contracts that covered >445k #FederalWorkers from the #EPA, US #CoastGuard, #FEMA, #GSA, the Departments of #HHS, #Agriculture & #VeteransAffairs, & parts of #ICE & #Citizenship & #Immigration Services.
“This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history,” said Mike Podhorzer, a former political director of the #AFLCIO. “There’s not another time when that many people lost their union.”
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