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• Trump administration ends union dues collection for most feds without notice - April 9, 2025

• This issue impacts the Federal Managers Association, as well, and we are actively looking into ways to work around this new challenge.

  By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  The Trump administration has apparently ceased collecting federal workers’ union dues via voluntary payroll deduction at agencies targeted by a recent executive order seeking to strip employees of their collective bargaining rights without notice, leaving labor groups in financial upheaval.
  
  Last month, President Trump signed an executive order citing a rarely used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to exempt agencies from federal labor law under the guise of “national security.” The edict, which also carves out non-national security agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Communications Commission, collectively strips two-thirds of the federal workforce of their right to join and be represented by a union.

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