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23 Union Locals Sue Trump War Department To Get Contracts Back

July 8, 2026 People's World. , , ,
Greenbelt, Md.—Some 23 union locals—20 from the Government Employees (AFGE) and three from the National Federation of Federal Employees/IAM—sued Trump War/Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., on July 2 to restore their union contracts.  The locals represent at least 62,000 workers combined, including 60,000-plus in AFGE and 2,169 in NFFE. The lawsuit says that after delaying for a year and with literally 24 hours’ notice and no reason given except  “national security,” Hegseth canceled all the contracts. Many had lasted for decades.

Trump Broadens Crackdown On Media Sources In Federal Government

May 29, 2026 Kevin Gosztola, The Dissenter. , , ,
President Donald Trump’s administration expanded its crackdown on news media sources, who work for the federal government, proposing a gag order for all U.S. government employees. It would cover “non-public, confidential, or proprietary information,” and infringe upon employees’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech.  The information covered by the proposed non-disclosure agreement is far-reaching, including information related to “internal agency operations, personnel matters, procurement processes, or any sensitive, pre-decisional or deliberative material that is not currently publicly available.”

Federal Workers Sue Government Over Pro-Christian Nationalist Proselytizing

May 22, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , , ,
Washington—A week before a mass May 17 rally of what one analyst called Donald Trump’s “government-funded Christian nationalism” on the National Mall, a federal workers union sued Trump Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for Christian proselytizing to USDA’s 110,000 workers. The National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), a Machinists sector, seven USDA workers, the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and Democracy Forward—pro bono lawyers who help unions and individuals oppose Trump’s dictatorial actions—told the U.S. District Court in San Francisco on May 13 that Rollins violated the U.S. Constitution’s 1st Amendment. 

Consumer Protection Workers Survived DOGE Attacks

February 26, 2026 Tyler Creighton, Labor Notes. , , ,
Federal workers and unions have proven to be a bulwark defending the rule of law and vital public services during President Trump’s second term. Our union at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a case in point. It has been a year since Chapter 335 of the National Treasury Employees Union started its campaign to stop the Trump administration from illegally dismantling the Bureau and firing its workers. Last February, fresh from ransacking USAID, Trump, Russell Vought, and Elon Musk turned their sights on destroying the CFPB, an agency created by Congress in 2010 to protect Americans from another global financial crisis.

The Unraveling Of FEMA

January 21, 2026 Matt Sedlar, Center for Economic Policy and Research. , , ,
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) had a bad 2025. The year started with staffing cuts and the appointment of a council to determine whether the agency — which handles the federal response to disasters and funds disaster recovery and prevention projects — should continue to exist in its current form.  The administration even dismantled a popular grant program that funded disaster mitigation projects. To top it all off, FEMA went through two acting administrators in the course of 12 months: Cameron Hamilton was fired in early May after declaring in congressional testimony that the agency should not be eliminated, and David Richardson stepped down in November after various controversies, including his response to the July Texas floods.

Fired Federal Workers In D.C. Sue Trump Administration

December 17, 2025 G. Seb, People's World. , , ,
Washington, DC — Former federal workers in D.C. have come together to file a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the unlawful firing of multiple employees over accusations of their work being a part of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. This comes as Trump has cut the jobs of almost 12% of the 2.3 million-strong federal workforce since the start of his second term.  The lawsuit highlights that the firings of these federal workers are based on Trump’s internal war against his perceived political enemies, which include people of color, women, trans people, and others.

It’s Open Season On Public Sector Workers

November 5, 2025 Les Leopold, Scheer Post. , , ,
First Trump and Musk take a chainsaw to their ranks, then the Democrats, in effect, lock out those who still have jobs. Approximately 100,000 government employees have lost their jobs since Trump took over. If that wasn’t bad enough, now the Democrats, trying to show that they really aren’t wimps, have shut down the government. Seven hundred and thirty thousand public sector employees are working without pay while another 670,000 have been furloughed. Working people of all shades, shapes, and sizes are suffering collateral damage.

Federal Workers Support Shutdown Fight

October 2, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. , , , ,
A coalition of unions in the federal sector signed on to an extraordinary Federal Unionists Network letter September 29 urging the Democrats to fight Trump administration cuts, even at the price of a government shutdown. It was titled “No Bad Budget in Our Name,” and signers represent tens of thousands of federal workers. Now that the shutdown has started, FUN is organizing a response among federal unionists, stating: “This is much more than a fight between branches of government or political parties. This government shutdown is a showdown between the public and the billionaires.” “[They’re] using a shutdown as a threat to pressure Congress to pass a budget that impacts our most vulnerable, including seniors, rural communities, hungry children and cuts out access to healthcare for millions of Americans,” said FUN Co-Executive Director Alyssa Taft.

About The Lincoln Declaration

September 26, 2025 Suzanne Gordon, Substack. , , ,
Early on the morning of Wednesday September 25th, a group of courageous physicians and other healthcare workers who have devoted their careers to the care of the nation’s veterans sent a letter of concern and protest to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the VA’s Inspector General and key members of Congress like those who serve on the Senate and House Committees for Veterans Affairs. The letter, which was signed by over 170 VA staff – some who put their names down and some who signed anonymously – was titled “The Lincoln Declaration: a Letter of Concern about the Future of Veterans’ Healthcare.” It’s title was taken– as is the VA’s mission –from Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address when, towards the end of the Civil War he promised that the nation would “care for those who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.”

Federal Workers Declare Five-Alarm Fires At Agencies

September 25, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. , , ,
Braving retaliation, thousands of federal workers across six agencies have signed open letters charging that their workplaces are being hamstrung or dismantled by the Trump administration. They join federal unionists at dozens more workplaces who have been sounding the alarm to Congress and the public. When deadly flooding in central Texas killed 135 people in July, “FEMA’s mission to provide critical support was obstructed by leadership who not only question the agency’s existence but place uninformed cost-cutting above serving the American people,” wrote 155 Federal Emergency Management Agency workers on August 25. A third of FEMA’s staff were either fired or have resigned so far this year.

FEMA Employees Who Signed Dissent Letter Put On Leave

August 27, 2025 Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill. , , ,
Employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were placed on leave on Tuesday after signing their names to a public letter criticizing the agency’s leadership, according to a group that helped facilitate the letter’s publication. More than 180 current and former FEMA staffers signed a public letter warning that the Trump administration is weakening the disaster response agency’s capacity and preventing it from carrying out its mission. Thirty-six staffers signed their names, the group told The Hill, while others signed anonymously. The letter was published online by the group Stand Up for Science but was addressed to the FEMA Review Council, which the Trump administration set up to explore ways to reform the agency. It also was sent to various congressional committees.

Court Ruling Clears The Way For Hundreds Of CDC Staff To Be Laid Off

August 25, 2025 Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, Truthout. , , , ,
Hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees are losing their jobs after a federal judge ruled on August 12 that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was barred from terminating employees at only six CDC divisions. The court’s prior ruling had protected all CDC staff. The litigation stems from HHS Director Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s efforts to terminate thousands of HHS employees. In March, Kennedy announced that 10,000 of the department’s workers would be laid off, including 2,400 staff from the CDC. Kennedy, who has long peddled health disinformation to the public, has made numerous false claims about vaccines, COVID-19, chronic diseases, and autism.

Worker Protection Agency Ditches Judges For Trump Administration

August 20, 2025 Dave Jamieson, Portside. , , ,
A small but essential federal agency plans to get rid of its judges who help resolve government workplace disputes, a move unions say will consolidate more power among President Donald Trump’s political appointees and weaken the collective-bargaining system. The Federal Labor Relations Authority has told Congress it will eliminate its administrative law judges as part of a reorganization scheme to comply with the Trump administration’s cost-cutting orders. The judges conduct hearings involving unlawful firings and union contract violations, and issue decisions that can be reviewed by the authority’s three presidentially appointed members.

Union-Busting In The Guise Of ‘National Security’

August 12, 2025 Steve Wishnia, Work Bites. , , , , ,
In a ruling the American Federation of Government Employees [AFGE] denounced as “a setback for fundamental rights in America,” a federal appeals court in California on August 1 lifted an injunction preventing the Trump regime from terminating collective-bargaining rights for an estimated two-thirds of the federal workforce. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the argument by six federal workers unions against Trump’s March 27 executive order nullifying their contracts—that it was retaliation for their exercising their right to dispute policies such as massive layoffs—was irrelevant, because “the President would have taken the same action even in the absence of the protected conduct.” 

A Spark Of Hope From Scrappy Federal Workers

August 8, 2025 Hadas Thier, Hammer and Hope. , , ,
I guess it’s gotten to me after all,” Russ Schafer conceded, gesturing toward his involuntarily shaking hand. Schafer, who requested a pseudonym in order to avoid workplace retaliation, has worked at the Environmental Protection Agency for more than 20 years. He’s trying to hold on to his job and refused “the fork” — the voluntary resignations pushed by the Trump administration in February, so-called because the subject line of the email to federal employees, “Fork in the Road,” was nearly the same as one sent to Twitter employees in 2022 by the company’s then-new owner, Elon Musk. “I’m just unwilling to walk away from my work. It’ll take a much bigger bribe to get me to give up on that,” Schafer told me.
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