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The Department of Veterans Affairs appeared to be the first agency to begin terminating union contracts, affecting more than 400,000 workers.

Unionization is the one thing which has kept wages up and working conditions decent for federal workers.

  • anon6789@lemmy.world
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Striking is a self-destruct button for their careers.

    Specifically, 5 U.S.C. §7311, specifies that federal employees may not participate in a strike, assert the right to strike, or even belong to a union that “asserts the right to strike against the government of the United States.” Driving the point home, 18 U.S.C. §1918 makes it a felony to strike against the United States or belong to a union that asserts the right to strike against the United States. What’s more, the Office of Personnel Management can declare an individual who participates in a strike unsuitable for federal employment. Forever. (Source)

      • anon6789@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 hours ago

        Well, they had collective bargaining rights until Trump “national securitied” them away this year. It sounds like they traded the ability to strike for that collective bargaining back in the Carter administration. Between Reagan and Trump, that’s not looking to have been the greatest success. Not really sure what all else they can accomplish at this point.