Federal workers could lose job protections under incoming Trump administration. Here's why

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Trump Impact: Federal workers could lose job protections under incoming Trump administration. Here’s why

Ian Crawford | [e-mail]
November 9, 2024, 3:47 PM

This story is part of WTOP’s ongoing series, Trump Impact, which looks at how the new administration could change the D.C. region.

Many federal workers are viewing President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House with caution. The unions that represent federal workers are concerned over how contract negotiations with federal agencies could proceed during a second Trump administration.

“Many federal unions saw policies that limited their abilities for collective bargaining, limited their ability to negotiate, ability to use ‘official time’ — that’s time spent working on union activities during work hours,” said Drew Friedman, who covers federal workforce issues for Federal News Network. … Friedman added that during his first term in office, Trump signed a number of executive orders, which limited the ability of unions, “to negotiate some of the articles of those contracts.”

The biggest concern for many federal workers is Schedule F — an executive order signed by Trump just before the 2020 election. When President Joe Biden took office in January, he revoked the order. … That order would allow agencies within the federal government to reclassify workers, removing many job protections that federal workers have had for a long time.

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Ian Crawford
Ian Crawford is a proud graduate of the University of Oregon, former AmeriCorps volunteer with a veterans’ service non-profit organization and, since joining WTOP, has been a news anchor, traffic reporter, business reporter and a producer
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1. may well be terminations will be more successful than deportations nt

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2. Fortunately the Biden Harris administration took preemptive steps to protect them

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/politics/rule-protecting-federal-workers/index.html

So thank you Joe and Kamala.

However you know, rule notwithstanding, he’s going to do what he can to make them his personal tools of dictatorship so they need to stay strong and resist mightily, and inform the public on a daily basis the myriad ways the Trumpnazis want to use the federal government to enrich and empower the billionaire class at the expense of the survival of the rest of us. These dedicated public servants need to remind people of the myriad ways they work every day to make individual people’s lives safer and better and how the Trumpnazis will intentionally destroy the people’s protections from such predations. ✊🏼