Trump ends unions for federal employees at NASA and other agencies
Trump’s war with the swamp continues
Fight! Fight! Fight! Trump this week issued a new executive order ending the union contracts for government employees at NASA and other agencies, continuing a March order aimed at reducing or eliminating union action in the federal government.
The president issued a new directive ending collective bargaining agreements at NASA, the International Trade Administration, the Office of the Commissioner for Patents, the National Weather Service, the US Agency for Global Media, hydropower facilities under the Bureau of Reclamation, and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.
Trump classified the agencies as having national security interests, exempting them from federal union laws.
Though lawsuits are on-going challenging Trump’s action, the public should know the context. First, the Supreme Court has already ruled that these actions can go forward, despite those court suits, suggesting the court already recognizes the legality of Trump’s decision.
Second, the rules that allowed unions within the federal government were initially established by executive order by President John Kennedy. Though subsequently there have been laws passed codifying some of his order, it has remained the prime legal basis for the existence of these unions. The Supreme Court recognized this when it approved Trump’s actions in connection with national security. What one president can order, another can cancel.
Thus, Trump is legally within his rights to do this.
Thirdly, on a purely rational basis, unions in the federal government never made sense, and were in fact an insane idea. It has always been the case that government workers had far better benefits and working conditions that those in the private sector. There was no need for unions. Once formed, these unions instead became a third power within the government that did not serve the interests of the American public, warping the purpose of our government entirely.
The result has been a far more inefficient and incompetent federal government, unable to accomplish anything on budget, on time, or even as planned. Worse, these union contracts have helps fuel the debt, by increasing costs unnecessarily while preventing any president from instituting efficiencies.
Finally, to deny the duly elected president from reshaping the federal work force is a direct attack on his constitutional authority. The public elects the president, not unions or government workers, to run the federal government. If Trump is denied this power we are literally canceling our Constitutional republic.
The sooner all federal unions can all be eliminated the sooner our federal government will begin to function again, as it is supposed to.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Trump’s war with the swamp continues
Fight! Fight! Fight! Trump this week issued a new executive order ending the union contracts for government employees at NASA and other agencies, continuing a March order aimed at reducing or eliminating union action in the federal government.
The president issued a new directive ending collective bargaining agreements at NASA, the International Trade Administration, the Office of the Commissioner for Patents, the National Weather Service, the US Agency for Global Media, hydropower facilities under the Bureau of Reclamation, and the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.
Trump classified the agencies as having national security interests, exempting them from federal union laws.
Though lawsuits are on-going challenging Trump’s action, the public should know the context. First, the Supreme Court has already ruled that these actions can go forward, despite those court suits, suggesting the court already recognizes the legality of Trump’s decision.
Second, the rules that allowed unions within the federal government were initially established by executive order by President John Kennedy. Though subsequently there have been laws passed codifying some of his order, it has remained the prime legal basis for the existence of these unions. The Supreme Court recognized this when it approved Trump’s actions in connection with national security. What one president can order, another can cancel.
Thus, Trump is legally within his rights to do this.
Thirdly, on a purely rational basis, unions in the federal government never made sense, and were in fact an insane idea. It has always been the case that government workers had far better benefits and working conditions that those in the private sector. There was no need for unions. Once formed, these unions instead became a third power within the government that did not serve the interests of the American public, warping the purpose of our government entirely.
The result has been a far more inefficient and incompetent federal government, unable to accomplish anything on budget, on time, or even as planned. Worse, these union contracts have helps fuel the debt, by increasing costs unnecessarily while preventing any president from instituting efficiencies.
Finally, to deny the duly elected president from reshaping the federal work force is a direct attack on his constitutional authority. The public elects the president, not unions or government workers, to run the federal government. If Trump is denied this power we are literally canceling our Constitutional republic.
The sooner all federal unions can all be eliminated the sooner our federal government will begin to function again, as it is supposed to.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Related: Unions are Socialist in nature, they can serve a purpose but like all things similar they always tend to go too far over the line and require force by government in order to exist.
SHE / THEY ARE SO MUCH MORE MORAL AND FAIRER THAN YOU
There is a characteristic of the Left, the Liberal, the Socialist, the Communist, the Democrat, the “progressive” and the radical anti-American; Everyone else in existence other than them is absolutely Subjectively corrupt and THEY are the arbiters of Objective fairness and most importantly what your morality must be.
All Communists, and that is exactly what they are despite them hiding behind their massaged prettied up nomenclature. They, the Democrats / Democrat Socialists propose that they can take from others (you) who can do and have and redistribute whatever they determine needs redistributing to others in order that life be fairer and more moral according TO THEM!
American Communists seek to legally and through government force discount your ability, your industry and hard work and strip you of the fruits of your competence and redistribute it to others. All in seeking their absolute political power, wealth and elite positions. Why? Because they are fairer and more moral than you!
They propose absolute force in everything that they determine needs to be run by THEM. You can see that unfolding in the EU and Britain today and that is exactly what was to happen in America as per the Globalist agenda. But that agenda has stalled out due to the existence of the Constitution, which the “progressive” must neuter in order to prevail.
THEY “CARE”.
AOC (Democrat Socialist) proposes absolute force in governance because she and the Democrat party taken over by the radical “progressives” CARES about you more than you care about you and you should surrender your autonomy to them:
https://youtu.be/slLWCcn61Tk?si=RSIIwYBqeswIV6_6
AOC’s and their “Democrat Socialist” problem? The people are beginning to understand that she and they are themselves corrupted and only seek absolute power in governance over everyone else.
She is cute, but she aint that cute.
Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 8/29/25
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/she-they-are-so-much-more-moral-and-fairer-than-you
While sound cannot travel through the vacuum of space, even Voyager 1 was able to hear the collective “Yeah, Baby!!!” associated with Trump’s action.