Federal workers’ unions have sought over the past two months to lead the resistance to President Trump and the Ministry of Governmental efficiency, to file lawsuits, and to organize protests and participate new members by thousands.
This week, Mr. Trump retracted a paralysis.
In a comprehensive executive order that the unions publish as “hostile” for his business schedule, the President pointed to the interests of national security by removing about a million civilian employees through more than ten agencies of the reach of organized workers, and eliminating the union authority to represent these workers at the negotiating table or in the court.
The lawsuit accompanying the executive order, which was submitted by the administration in the Federal Court in Texas, requires the judge to give the president permission to cancel collective negotiation agreements, citing national security services and saying that the agreements were “subjected” to the executive authority.
On Friday, work leaders pledged to challenge Trump’s actions in court. However, with the exception of legal intervention, movements can bow federal unions and protection for many civil service employees just as workers are preparing for a new round of work throughout the government.
“They are raising the union, tearing the collective negotiation agreements, and after that they will come to workers,” said Brian Kelly, an employee of the Environmental Protection Agency, who heads an American Union of American employees,. “Therefore, it’s a scenario of worst cases.”
This step added to the list of procedures conducted by Mr. Trump to use the presidency tools to weaken the imagined enemies, in this case that seeks to neutralize the groups representing civilian employees who make up the “deep state” that he is trying to dismantle. Upon issuing the order, Mr. Trump said he was using the powers granted by Congress to appoint certain sectors of the Central Federal Labor to “national security tasks” and exempt the requirements of collective freedom. Some employees of some agencies, such as the FBI and the CIA, are already excluded from the collective negotiation of these reasons.
However, by order, Mr. Trump added exemptions to many workers in the affairs of the old warriors and the treasury of the Ministry of Treasury and Energy as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, among other things. Huge parts of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services have also been appointed as vital to national security, in addition to “most components” in the Ministry of Justice.
It was clear in its purpose: to neutralize the groups that managed to “obstruct the agency’s management”.
“The goal is to prevent employees in some security agencies from the federation with ways to disrupt the president’s agenda,” said White House spokesman Harrison Fields.
Since Mr. Trump returned to his post in January and began to impose large -scale discounts in the government workforce, federal employee unions, especially AFGE, have taken a new vision and a major role in the Trump administration challenge. The unions have recorded some successes in the difficult court related to the efforts of the Ministry of Governmental efficiency in Elon Musk. Workers’ leaders have emerged as vocal heroes for federal workers – and Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk.
Federation officials said AFGE has witnessed a breakthrough of tens of thousands of new wage members since January.
Samuel R. Bengness, a professor of law at the University of Michigan and the former general advisor at the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, will be subject to “very important” legal challenges, describing it as “a dramatic skipping of the President’s authority” under the laws that govern the federal workforce. Mr. Bagninstus said that the efforts made to justify the step under the rules of national security personnel are an extension.
“We have this incredibly wide effort here to remove the strength of any union to represent any employee,” said Mr. Bagsnusus.
Federation officials said on Friday that they are afraid that the president’s actions may be disastrous for their institutions on multiple fronts.
They said that the abolition of the collective negotiation agreements of many workers will have an immediate impact to end the collection of dues from the checks of these workers.
The leaders of AFGE estimated that 75 percent of 300,000 entitlements are used salary discounts. Now, the union will have to persuade members to make direct payments online to the union.
Moreover, union leaders said that the president’s actions can deal with a fatal blow to their most effective weapons to the Trump administration and its Dog’s reductions, the federal court system.
In the absence of the collective negotiation agreement, the unions are no longer represented by workers, which means that the judge may find that they no longer have a legal position to prosecute their behalf, according to union leaders and lawyers. “Because of this litigation, the unions affected by the executive order will not be able to represent the agency’s employees,” said White House spokesman, on Friday.
The unions said they would fight. Speaking on Friday at a press conference about the Capitol Hill, AFGE president, Evert Kelly, described the executive matter as “my revenge clearly”, and said: “The labor movement will not be silenced.” Randy Erwin, the National President of the National Union of Federal employees – another union affected by the system – described it as “the biggest attack on the collective negotiation rights that we saw in this country”, describing it as “illegal and unconstitutional in starkly.”
AFGE leadership held an emergency meeting late Thursday to discuss the matter. While the leadership of the Union has prepared the major attacks on the workforce, some leaders have not seen such an exciting step, according to one person involved in the discussion.
Other union officials described the preparation for a moment, given the efforts of Mr. Trump during his first administration to reduce the strength of federal unions and remove protection on civil service functions.
Federal law imposes restrictions on federal employees. Union membership cannot be assigned, and federal employees cannot strike.
Technically, AFGE is 800,000 workers, but most of them do not pay dues. In the madness of new subscriptions and newly participating members, union leaders in the interviews said they were often explaining to workers what the Federation could do exactly. Some workers felt frustrated from the limits of unions.
Mr. Kelly, the local leader of Michigan, said that the road forward was clear: the union had to make its case known not only for federal workers but for Americans. “You will not have any sound in your workplace. You need people to see how dangerous it is.”
Tyler Pege The reports contributed.
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