Fetterman Sulks, Conservatives Cheer As President Trump Takes Sledgehammer to Public Sector Unions

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By Teri Christoph

One of the latest actions by President Donald Trump isn't getting the big headlines, but it should.

On Thursday night, the president signed the "Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs" Executive Order (EO), which bars unions representing vast swaths of the federal workforce from engaging in collective bargaining. The EO focuses on agencies in the national security sphere but has the net effect of neutralizing the power of the unions.

Collective bargaining is the process where employees—in this case, federal workers—band together via union organization to negotiate with their employers—in this case, the federal government—over things like wages, benefits, and, in the case of public sector unions, all sorts of perks and privileges the average, non-unionized American worker doesn't get. Removing it neuters the unions and puts the federal employees affected by the EO on notice that they serve the American people, not the unions.

The action by President Trump will affect several departments, including State, Defense, Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Justice, and several divisions within Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Interior, Energy, Agriculture and Commerce. In other words, it's a monumental strike against the unions.

And all the right people are mad.

Here's Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) to remind you he's no conservative.

Notice how he goes right to the threat of legal action against the Trump administration? He's quite obviously comfortable in the knowledge that activist judges will trip over themselves to stop this EO from taking effect. No effort required.

In signing the EO, President Trump used the authority granted him by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA), which empowered presidents to shape and oversee the federal workforce. We'll see what the judicial branch has to say about that and whether or not they held previous presidents to the same standards.

And here comes the FUN, otherwise known as the Federal Unionists Network, being overly dramatic in a way only theatre kids can, about their "moment."

FUN has been behind the rather tepid efforts of the left to stop Elon Musk and DOGE from de-bloating the federal government. Every time you see a "rally" of three Democrats talking to a crowd made up mostly of press, that's FUN. They've got the signs and terrible chants ready to go at a moment's notice and often seem to be confused as to whether they are protesting DOGE, Trump, Tesla, Israel, or just America in general. Ask what there they're for and you'll be met with blank faces. 

Public sector unions were always a bad idea. Every time DOGE uncovers some sort of waste or mismanagement, you can bet the unions had something to do with it. Federal employees balking at returning to in-person work? Thank a union for not wanting to go back to pre-COVID life. Outrage that the bloated federal workforce is being shrunk? Unions ensured it was almost impossible to fire a government employee.

Elon Musk and DOGE have done a masterful job of pulling the curtain back on how entrenched these public sector unions have been in the federal government, and this action by President Trump is just more of the reckoning the left so richly deserves.

Elon Musk and DOGE are bringing much-needed accountability to our out-of-control bureaucracy as they take a chainsaw to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse.

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