President Donald Trump just ended collective bargaining in much of the federal government. He took this bold step on national security grounds, but it won’t just make America safer: It will save taxpayers huge amounts of money while freeing federal workers from one-size-fits-all union contracts that make them less effective. This is a massive win for America.
The president’s order, signed Thursday, prohibits collective bargaining with labor unions at well over a dozen federal departments and agencies. The list includes all or parts of the Defense, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, and Energy departments and the safety-focused parts of the Department of Health and Human Services. Recent estimates indicate that at least 1 million federal workers at these agencies are unionized, and those covered by the executive
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