Trump Moves to End Union Protections Across Broad Swath of Government
28th March 2025
The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.
An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.
Of course it is. I don’t recall when unions became allowed for government workers–when I was younger, that was illegal–but I suspect that the growth of sclerotic government was greatly accelerated by unionization, as has been its effect on business that a chock full o’ unions. Unions have always been one of the pillars of the Dramacrat party, teachers’ unions and government worker unions (which overlap a great deal) being notable stalwarts.
The inherent bias of the NYT is evident by the way they refer to ‘union protections’, as if unions were the only thing keeeping government workers from being kept in peonage.
The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal workers union, estimated that the order would strip labor protections from hundreds of thousands of civil servants, and said it was preparing legal action.
There were extensive civil service protections in place for government workers before unions, and probably will remain after unions are dust.