Just ahead of Labor Day weekend, President Donald Trump escalated his attack on the federal workforce by trying to strip union rights from more federal employees.
Trump signed an executive order Thursday purporting to strip collective-bargaining abilities from workers at the National Weather Service, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other federal agencies, claiming a “national security” exemption.
The move builds on a sweeping executive order in March that aimed to end bargaining rights for an estimated 1 million federal workers under the same premise.
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Federal unions continue to challenge that order in federal court, noting that many of the workers covered by it — including nurses and park rangers — obviously serve no national-security functions. They’ve called the administration’s actions retaliation for their opposition to Trump’s federal workforce agenda.
