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• Trump administration, unions already trading lawsuits over order outlawing most government labor groups - April 1, 2025

• Federal agencies swiftly sued the American Federation of Government Employees last week, asking a lone Trump-appointed judge to uphold an order banning unions for two-thirds of the federal workforce.

  Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  It’s been just days since President Trump signed an unprecedented executive order aimed at stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective bargaining rights, but both the White House and federal employee unions are already trading lawsuits over the edict.
  
  Last Thursday, Trump signed an executive order citing a rarely used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to ban unions at an array of federal agencies under the guise of national security. Similar exemptions have existed across decades of executive orders—and several military conflicts—before Congress codified federal employees’ rights to join and be represented by organized labor, but no president has gone further than exempting the intelligence community and some law enforcement positions from those rights.

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