President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 27 aimed at ending collective bargaining with federal labor unions for numerous employees of government agencies with national security missions.
The order, titled “Exclusions from federal labor-management relations programs,” is expansive, and applies to workers across more than a dozen agencies within the Departments of State, Defense, Veterans Affairs, Energy, Health and Human Services, Treasury, Justice, and Commerce and the part of Homeland Security responsible for border security.
In addition to the agencies under those departments, the order covers all agencies with the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the United States Agency for International Development, the United States International Trade Commission, and the General Services Administration....
