As federal employee unions continue to fight the Trump administration’s effort to strip two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective bargaining rights in federal courts, a bipartisan group of lawmakers are working on multiple fronts to pass legislation overriding the president’s executive order.
Trump in March signed an executive order citing a little-used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to bar unions from a host of federal agencies and agency subcomponents under the guise of national security. Democrats and union leaders argue that the citation of national security is mere pretext for retaliating against labor groups that have filed lawsuits challenging the administration’s workforce policies.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/07/lawmakers-pursue-parallel-paths-toward-blocking-trumps-anti-union-order/406940/
