Trump administration ends union dues collection for most feds without notice

[James48]

Source: GovExec.com

The Trump administration has apparently ceased collecting federal workers’ union dues via voluntary payroll deduction at agencies targeted by a recent executive order seeking to strip employees of their collective bargaining rights without notice, leaving labor groups in financial upheaval.

Last month, President Trump signed an executive order citing a rarely used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to exempt agencies from federal labor law under the guise of “national security.” The edict, which also carves out non-national security agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Communications Commission, collectively strips two-thirds of the federal workforce of their right to join and be represented by a union.

The administration has filed multiple lawsuits in federal courts staffed with only Republican-appointed judges seeking the legal go-ahead to terminate union contracts at agencies targeted by the order. Despite those suits’ suggestion that the administration would wait for such a decision before repudiating CBAs, unions said that this week, the government’s three main payroll processors have all surreptitiously ceased collecting union dues directly from employees’ paychecks.

Read more: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/04/trump-administration-ends-union-dues-collection-most-feds-without-notice/404434/

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This just showed up today- it’s a major blow to all Federal Employee Unions. Despite requiring payroll deduction in contracts, they are stopping payroll deduction anyway.

The bastards.

[Woodycall]

1. Unions...

"On 2 May 1933, just three months after Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the SA and police occupied the offices of German Trade Unions, seizing control of them."

[wishstar]

2. AFGE successfully set up a different dues pay system last time he was in WH

From the linked article:

The American Federation of Government Employees, the nation’s largest federal worker union, is the only major labor group to have implemented an alternative system to collect union dues outside of federal payroll systems. That initiative was undertaken after the Education Department and Environmental Protection Agency sought to cease collecting dues on behalf of workers during Trump’s first term.

Biggs said IFPTE is in the process of developing a so-called eDues system, but it will take at least another three weeks before the union can deploy it. And in the National Treasury Employees Union’s lawsuit seeking to block the order’s implementation, officials said the end of automatic dues collection would slash the union’s revenue by more than half.

“AFGE were way out in front of this, to their credit,” Biggs said. “But it costs money—significant money—to put this in place . . . We’re smaller and don’t have the same resources as they do. We’re spending those resources now to get it set up and done, and that of course is part of their objective, to force unions to spend their own money on this.”

Biggs said that once their alternative system is up and running, the union will do a massive internal organizing campaign to get workers to switch to the new process. But despite the severe short-term harm, federal employee unions will ultimately weather the storm."

[ms.pamela]

3. Breaking Unions

I am an office manager for a federal union. At the end of June, I will be laid off as the union will run out of money by then. We are in the process of attempting to set up a system to collect union dues by other means, but it will essentially be like starting anew. Trump is terminating all federal union contracts (sure it is as illegal as hell) and now all stewards must work off the clock either before or after work. He will be coming for private sector unions next; we are just the first in line. The naval shipyard is preparing to lay off workers, this area will be hit hard. Private contractors will also see job losses. Trump is ruining this nation.

[Bengus81]

11. And...there are loads of MAGA morons who work in private sector unions

where I live. Hey...FAFO Trump voters! What you love to refer to as "owning the Libs" is biting YOU clowns,you family etc in the ass every day this fucking NAZI runs this Country.

[4Sitka]

4. Retired forest service

I am so thankful to be out of there and not be under the pressure this administration is putting on those souls still working.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

5. As former DoD civilian ....

and current professor I often urge young graduates to at least consider federal jobs in their fields. Some are the best places to do the sort of work you want to do.

That is no longer the case.

I am glad I no longer work for the government, and I would not want to suggest it to anyone else as it is just too unstable and the potential that you would be asked to do unethical or flatly illegal things is just too high.

And that sucks because it is supposed to be OUR government, not his.

[MichMan]

6. They will just need to set up automatic monthly bill pay with their members now.

It may take a little while, but most people do that every month for bills already.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. GOP greedheads hate the New Deal

It’s like they think they have to pay money to live a just society that’s lucky to have them in it.

[MichMan]

8. Well, FDR's New Deal didn't allow for Government employees to be unionized n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Good thing he listened to Eleanor.

Nobody’s perfect.

[MichMan]

10. Unionization for Federal employees wasn't allowed until 1962 when JFK issued an Executive Order

FDR had been dead for 16 years, so I doubt he or Eleanor had anything to do with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_10988

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Thanks, yes.

FDR thought it immoral for government employees to strike.

JFK absolutely did the heavy lifting in support of unions — and civil rights.

JFK White House Tapes: Kennedy was concerned for young voters and pegged the 1-percent.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=214177

JFK believed in D.E.I.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219413096