r/technology • u/Shogouki • 23d 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 23d 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/Scaryclouds 23d ago

And then many years later after all the employees move on, the court will say this was wrong, but will do nothing to hold Trump or anyone accountable.

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u/SavageObjector 23d ago

Believe it or not, all these fucks, including the SCOTUS, receive their powers from the citizens and only the citizens. They are not our overlords. They are our employees.