National-security exclusions removed bargaining rights across agencies representing hundreds of thousands
Reporting and findings
- reported
Associated Press reported that the order targeted bargaining coverage across national-security-designated components and that AFGE, representing about 820,000 federal and D.C. workers, prepared litigation; the union's retaliation theory remained an allegation unless and until adopted by a court.
- Associated Press: Trump moves to end collective bargaining with federal unions in agencies with national security missionsOrder scope, AFGE membership figure, and announced legal challenge
- Just Security: Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration ActionsFederal collective-bargaining exclusion cases and current dispositions
- documented
On 2025-03-27, Donald Trump excluded specified agencies and subdivisions from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute based on asserted national-security functions.
Corrects claim:batch-200:federal-labor-program-exclusions-2025- The White House: Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations ProgramsOperative text of the cited action
Summary and current status
The order applied a statutory national-security exception to broad components, not only intelligence jobs. Union challenges turned on the breadth and asserted retaliatory use of that exception.
Exclusions implemented across named components; agency-specific injunctions and appeals followed.
People and organizations
- Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programsexecutive action under legal and impact review
- Donald J. Trumppresident who issued the action
Relationships in this file
- Donald J. Trumpexcluded agencies from labor statute throughExclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs