Trump moves to cancel recent union agreements with federal workers

Donald Trump said Friday that immoderate corporate bargaining agreements reached with national workers wrong 30 days of his inauguration volition not beryllium approved, the latest salvo successful the U.S. president's bid to remake the national workforce.

In a memo addressed to the heads of each enforcement departments and agencies, Trump said erstwhile U.S. President Joe Biden's medication purposefully finalized corporate bargaining agreements with national employees successful its last days "in an effort to harm my medication by extending its wasteful and failing policies beyond its clip successful office."

It was not instantly wide however galore agreements would beryllium affected by the caller policy, which refers to them arsenic "lame-duck corporate bargaining agreements."

Collective bargaining agreements are deals betwixt unions and their employees that outline moving conditions, wage and different policies.

The determination comes arsenic President Donald Trump embarks connected a monolithic makeover of the U.S. government, firing and sidelining hundreds of civilian servants successful his archetypal steps toward downsizing the bureaucracy and installing much loyalists.

The memo cites a U.S. Department of Education corporate bargaining statement reached 3 days earlier Trump took bureau that "generally prohibits the bureau from returning distant employees to their offices."

Trump has signed an enforcement bid that would necessitate national employees to enactment in-office 5 days a week, reversing a distant moving inclination that took disconnected successful the aboriginal stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.