Week 24 saw Trump shutting down a government website with research on global warming, axing all NOAA’s tornado and hurricane research, and placing on leave 144 EPA employees who signed a letter of dissent against his policies.
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A federal judge last week granted AFGE and allies’ request for a preliminary injunction in a case involving President Trump’s executive order ending collective bargaining agreements for federal workers, ruling the EO is likely illegal.
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Thanks to AFGE’s hard work, the Senate dropped all anti-worker provisions AFGE opposed in its final version of the Big Retaliation Bill released June 27
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The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) last week affirmed unsafe working conditions detailed in a whistleblower complaint filed by three AFGE members against USDA’s Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Maryland.
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A new analysis on Social Security reflects what AFGE has been saying all along: Staffing cuts will hurt the American people who rely on Social Security.
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Week 23 saw a federal judge blocking Trump’s plan to end collective bargaining for federal workers, chaos at NSF, and Trump withholding congressionally mandated funding for agencies.
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In another attack against the federal workforce, Trump’s Office of Personnel Management ordered agencies to overhaul federal employee performance appraisal and disciplinary systems in violation of existing labor contracts and decades of past practice.
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President Trump and Senate Republicans were dealt a major blow in their effort to gut the civil service with the Senate parliamentarian dropping anti-civil service provisions from the Senate reconciliation bill due to procedural violations.
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Week 22 saw Trump illegally changing federal employees’ performance management rules, laying off nearly 100 employees at NARA, and shutting down the national LGBTQ+ suicide prevention hotline.
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Pride Month is celebrated each year in June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, where trans and queer people fought back against police harassment of community members in New York City.
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In retaliation against AFGE and other unions for successfully standing up for federal workers in courts, the Trump administration and Senate GOP last week released its version of Trump’s House-passed ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ with several provisions attacking federal employees and their workplace rights.
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In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge June 9 ordered OPM to temporarily halt disclosures of Americans' personal data to DOGE agents.
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Week 21 saw Trump making new federal employees at-will, gutting NASA and NEH and setting a timeline to dismantle FEMA.
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May/June 2025 Government Standard: Check out this special Government Standard about our ongoing fight to protect public servants and our democracy.
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