Trump Moves to Rescind Union Rights of Over 1 Million Federal Workers
31 Mar 2025
Trump moves to strip federal workers of union rights; Minnesota public unions vow to fight part-time return-to-office order; U of M resident physicians file for union; child labor violations on the rise; and 80 nursing home workers strike in Minneapolis.
As seen on the Minnesota Reformer:
Trump signs order rescinding union rights of federal workers
Citing his national security authority, President Trump signed an executive order Thursday rescinding the collective bargaining rights of a massive swath of the federal workforce in a historic attack on public unions.
The order strips workers from the right to union representation across the federal enterprise, including at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management.