Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Susan Collins, Brian Schatz (D-HI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mark Warner (D-VA) sent a joint letter urging the Trump Administration to reinstate federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. This effort comes after the President issued an executive order to end collective bargaining at several federal agencies. The order strips more than 1,000,000 federal workers across the country of their collective bargaining rights.
“The presence of collective bargaining rights has created a more stable and productive workforce and has allowed the federal government to better meet the needs of our constituents,” the Senators wrote. “Further, sudden changes to labor-management relations are disruptive to the work of the federal workforce and will result in the loss of valuable federal workers with knowledge and skills critical to completing their respective agency’s missions.”
“We share your goal of streamlining federal operations and enhancing government efficiency, but believe that the March 27th EO impedes, rather than advances, efforts to make the federal government more efficient. Therefore, we respectfully request that you reconsider your executive order and restore federal workers’ collective bargaining rights,” the Senators concluded.
The full text of the letter is available here.
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