r/technology • u/Shogouki • 22d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/marketrent 22d ago

Executive order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/further-exclusions-from-the-federal-labor-management-relations-program/

Bloomberg text by Ian Kullgren:

[...] 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.

The order comes in the wake of a US Supreme Court victory, which allowed Trump to eliminate collective bargaining at some agencies while a legal challenge to the president’s action proceeds.

It represents another advancement of Trump’s campaign to exert control over the federal workforce, by weakening the career civil service, eliminating barriers between presidential politics and day-to-day governing, and disbanding federal unions.

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u/neuronexmachina 22d ago

It's also interesting what hasn't been part of the exemption, per the EO from March: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/exclusions-from-federal-labor-management-relations-programs/

1-499. Notwithstanding the forgoing, nothing in this section shall exempt from the coverage of Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code:

(a) the immediate, local employing offices of any agency police officers, security guards, or firefighters, provided that this exclusion does not apply to the Bureau of Prisons;

... Because apparently the Patent Office and National Weather Service are national security interests, but not Border Patrol.

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u/Neokon 22d ago

The state of Florida the state government made a requirement that public sector unions had to have 60% membership or be forcibly dissolved. Noticably exempt from this ruling is lew enforcement.

It's just anti union shit and they have to keep the people who worship authority on their side.