Unions representing thousands of employees at the National Weather Service and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, both under the Commerce Department, filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his executive order last week expanding the list of federal agencies to strip them of collective bargaining rights.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, called Trump’s executive order the near completion of “union busting” in the civil service.
In his EO, Trump ended collective bargaining with federal unions representing agencies with national security missions. Trump’s EO stated that “weather and climate data that inform the weather forecasting used to plan U.S. military deployments. Weather forecasts have long been critical factor [sic] in the success or failure of military operations,” the EO said.
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