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.
