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Federal Workers Win Another Layoff Reprieve in DHS Funding Bill
February 4, 2026 // The extension is a temporary win for public-sector unions that have sought to permanently extend the moratorium after the Trump administration used a combination of resignation incentives and formal RIFs to cut the federal workforce by about 219,000 in 2025. The moratorium was initially negotiated by Kaine, and will last only until DHS funding runs out on Feb. 13.
Unions, nonprofits challenge FEMA staffing cuts in court
January 29, 2026 // Their court challenge filed Tuesday evening alleges DHS and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are breaking the law by directing the termination of hundreds of FEMA employees. The complaint alleges those actions violate the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006, which gave FEMA more autonomy and restricts the DHS secretary’s ability to make sweeping overhauls and staff reductions at the emergency management agency.
Trump Hasn’t Undone Workers’ Union Rights Op-ed: Maxford Nelsen
January 2, 2026 // The presidents of both the AFL-CIO and American Federation of Government Employees both praised the House vote as necessary to “restore” federal workers’ “union rights.” But nothing in Mr. Trump’s order limits federal employees’ right to form or join a union. It simply eliminates the legal obligation of certain federal agencies to negotiate their “personnel policies, practices and matters . . . affecting working conditions” with unelected special interests. The distinction matters, as unions admit in other contexts. South Carolina, in which state and local governments can’t engage in collective bargaining, still has a teachers union that is quick to remind teachers that they can join and fork over dues money.
Union Bosses Admit They Spent $1.8 Billion on Politics in the 2024 Election Cycle — The Real Number is Likely Over $28 Billion
December 19, 2025 // It is nearly impossible to produce perfectly accurate figures from the LM-2 because subsidiary unions file separate forms from the larger national unions they fall under, and transactions between these unions could be listed multiple times in the data. This only worsens the problems of inconsistent and potentially inaccurate reporting mentioned above. The LM-2 does not lend itself to a precise analysis of union boss spending, but it does give a sense of its scale. When sympathetic media outlets report unions’ political influence in the tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars that is a dramatic underrepresentation.
US Invalidates Union Contract Covering 47,000 TSA Officers, AFGE Vows to Challenge
December 16, 2025 // U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday terminated the collective bargaining agreement covering 47,000 Transportation Security Administration officers, the department said in a statement.
House passes bill to restore collective bargaining for federal employees
December 15, 2025 // “The president has been fighting back against the deals that public sector unions have negotiated for themselves, at the expense of the American taxpayer, by invoking an existing legal authority,” said Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the Oversight committee. “[This bill] directly threatens that progress by overturning the president’s executive order that exercises one of the few tools available to him under the law to more effectively manage the federal workforce.”
Union bosses sue to defend system that helped turn federal prison into ‘rape club’
December 15, 2025 // Government union bosses wielding monopoly-bargaining privileges have on multiple occasions “frustrated and undermined accountability” in the oversight of federal prisoners, as even David Fathi of the generally pro-Big Labor American Civil Liberties Union has acknowledged. That’s why President Trump’s executive order from March is so important — it freed large swaths of the federal workforce from union bosses’ obstructionist power.
13 Republicans Vote to Nullify Donald Trump’s Executive Order
December 11, 2025 // Democratic Representative Jared Golden, who led the bill, forced a vote on it by using a mechanism known as a discharge petition. The Congressional procedure means lawmakers can force a vote on a piece of legislation against the wishes of the leadership on the condition that it has majority support in the House.
House strips its own provision protecting Defense civilians’ union rights from NDAA
December 11, 2025 // A source familiar with congressional negotiations said that the bipartisan language effectively nullifying President Trump’s anti-union executive orders as they pertain to the Pentagon was dropped due to lack of support in the Senate.
Editorial Board: America’s veterans deserve better care than government unions provide
December 8, 2025 // The smarter approach would be for Congress to affirm Trump’s decision to strip collective bargaining rights while dispensing with his flimsy national security justification. Consider the legacy of pro-union President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who opposed collective bargaining and strikes for federal employees. As Roosevelt and other pro-union leaders understood in the 1930s, collective bargaining is carried out against an employer. The government’s employer is the public. Allowing unelected labor union bosses to negotiate against the public’s elected representatives to determine how the government gets run is undemocratic.