This provision has traditionally applied to certain employees at agencies such as the CIA, the FBI or the National Security Agency.

But Trump’s order, signed late Thursday, is more far-reaching, and includes employees whose jobs touch on national defense, border security, foreign relations, energy security, pandemic preparedness, the economy, public safety and cybersecurity.

It notably excludes law enforcement. “Police and firefighters will continue to collectively bargain,” the White House fact sheet states.

Unions are roundly condemning the move.

“This administration’s latest executive order is union busting, pure and simple,” said Irma Westmoreland, a registered nurse at a veterans hospital in Augusta, Ga., who spoke in her capacity as chair of Veterans Affairs for National Nurses United.

  • TwinTitans@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    7 days ago

    So how many more times are the trades unions going to stand behind a republican president for a photo op?

    Wake the hell up. The republicans HATE UNIONS.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      They’ll probably keep doing it unless Democrats run an openly racist candidate that doesn’t hate unions.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    The rules about unions are like the chore wheel that roommates worked out so they wouldn’t have to keep fighting about it: A mutual agreement, not a grant of privilege from a gracious-feeling lord.

    Most of the union actions that made genuine progress in this country were illegal. And it took sticking with them for decades before things really changed on a big scale. But once they changed, the deal for working people became really good, and stayed that way for quite a while.

    You can’t stop me from not working. You can’t stop me from talking to other people about not working. That’s what it is. You can pretend, and you can make it difficult (even deadly), but you can’t stop it.