US EditionDemocrats press discharge petition to restore federal worker union rights stripped by Trump
UNITED STATES, JUL 17 – Democrats seek to reverse President Trump's 2025 executive order that removed collective bargaining rights from 75% of federal employees, with 222 members of Congress supporting the measure.
- In Congress, Democrats have initiated a discharge petition to force a vote overturning the order, noting that every Democrat and two Republicans have signed it.
- On March 27, President Donald Trump issued an order stripping rights from over a million federal workers, removing bargaining for 75% under a false national security premise.
- Despite their rarity, discharge petitions, Golden noted, `Discharge petitions are rarely successful`, demonstrating limited success in Congress.
- In response, National Nurses United, representing over 225,000 nurses, applauded the move to use a discharge petition and said `we urge quick action`.
- Meanwhile, Americans support unions by 70% and oppose easing federal employees' firing rules by 2-1 margin.
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Donald Trump took away federal workers’ union rights. Congress must restore them.
The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Jared Golden of Lewiston represents Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Unions built the middle class in this country, not just through collective bargaining to improve wages and working conditions for their own members, but by fighti…
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