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President Trump signed an executive order removing union protections from federal employees at several agencies. Unions are calling it retaliation, while Trump cites national security. A legal battle is ongoing.
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Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections By Chris Cameron Aug. 29, 2025, 12:21 a.m. ET 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...
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