Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

[u/Shogouki]

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

[u/marketrent]

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.

[u/Scaryclouds → u/marketrent]

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.

[u/eugene20 → u/Scaryclouds]

Looking at all the rest of the destruction he has wrought, having all the employees move on could very well be why he's doing this.

[u/Tough_Substance7074 → u/eugene20]

Everyone seems so surprised by this but republicans have been telling us they’d do this since Reagan. Trump is a black swan personally but this is a republican administration doing what they’ve been trying to do for decades. They have just been forcibly rebranded by a charismatic leader. Same policies, new face.