Posts tagged Bureau of Prisons
Federal Bureau of Prisons Ends Union Protections for Workers
September 29, 2025 // President Trump’s executive orders since March have stripped nearly half a million federal workers of union rights. He issued an executive order in March instructing a broad swath of government agencies to end collective bargaining with federal unions. That order targets agreements covering nearly a million federal workers at agencies including the Justice Department, of which the prisons bureau is a part. The president has cast his instructions as necessary for national security. The unions targeted in the orders have repeatedly sued the administration, calling them acts of retaliation against unions. A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of Mr. Trump.
Backgrounder: Executive Order: Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs
March 31, 2025 // The practice of “official time” is when unionized federal employees perform union-related activities, rather than their actual public service duties, while being paid by taxpayers. The Federal Unions EO requires that agencies, upon termination of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, reassign any workers who performed “official time” to positions where they perform solely agency business. It also contains language regarding existing grievance proceedings and allows for the head of each agency to submit a report to the President within 30 days highlighting any agency subdivisions that were not covered but should have been covered under the Federal Unions EO.