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NTEU Sues to Protect Union Rights for Federal Workers
WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The National Treasury Employees Union issued the following news release on March 31, 2025:
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NTEU Sues to Protect Union Rights for Federal Workers
WASHINGTON - President Trump's order stripping frontline federal employees of their lawful right to organize is a brazen, illegal attack on workers and unions, according to a lawsuit filed March 31 by the National Treasury Employees Union.
"The law plainly gives federal employees the right to bargain collectively and the shocking executive order abolishing that right for most of them, under the guise of national security,
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WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The National Treasury Employees Union issued the following news release on March 31, 2025:
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NTEU Sues to Protect Union Rights for Federal Workers
WASHINGTON - President Trump's order stripping frontline federal employees of their lawful right to organize is a brazen, illegal attack on workers and unions, according to a lawsuit filed March 31 by the National Treasury Employees Union.
"The law plainly gives federal employees the right to bargain collectively and the shocking executive order abolishing that right for most of them, under the guise of national security,is an attempt to silence the voices of our nation's public servants," said NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald. "It is also a continuation of the administration's efforts to deny the American people the vital services that these talented civil servants provide by making it easier to fire them without any pushback from their union advocates."
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, says the order eliminating union rights for two-thirds of the entire federal workforce is in direct conflict with the law that Congress passed specifically to facilitate and strengthen collective bargaining in the federal sector.
"NTEU intends to protect the ability of frontline federal employees to stand together to improve the conditions under which they serve the American people. Federal workers around the country, through their unions, advocate for the tools and resources they need to do their jobs and help their agencies accomplish important public service missions, and we will not allow the administration to distort the truth," Greenwald said.
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 declared that collective bargaining in the federal sector "safeguards the public interest." While there is a narrow exemption for groups of employees whose work directly impacts national security, Trump's order is absurdly broad, further proving that the true goal is to fire as many federal employees as possible, weaken federal agencies and retaliate against federal sector unions.
In fact, no president has ever exempted an entire Cabinet-level agency from collective bargaining rights, only discrete offices within agencies that clearly perform primarily security or intelligence work. President Trump's order would block NTEU from representing frontline employees in more than a dozen agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, Health and Human Services, and others.
None of the NTEU-represented agencies swept up by this order has a primary function of intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative or national security work, the lawsuit states. Further, NTEU's representation of them, for decades in some cases, has never had an adverse effect on national security.
"The Executive Order plainly punishes NTEU for its legal challenges to this administration's actions, cancelling, as relevant here, twelve of NTEU's collective bargaining relationships, including NTEU's largest and longest one at the IRS," the lawsuit states.
NTEU represents employees in 37 federal agencies and offices.
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Original text here: https://www.nteu.org/media-center/news-releases/2025/03/31/unionrightslawsuitrelease
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First Responders in Oregon Secure Teamsters Contract
WASHINGTON, March 31 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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First Responders in Oregon Secure Teamsters Contract
198 EMTs, Paramedics, and Dispatchers Win Better Protections, Higher Wages
(BEAVERTON, Ore.) - Emergency medical service dispatchers, technicians, and paramedics at American Medical Response (AMR) in Washington County represented by Teamsters Local 223 have overwhelmingly ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. The three-year agreement includes wage increases, signing bonuses, an eight percent 401(k)
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WASHINGTON, March 31 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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First Responders in Oregon Secure Teamsters Contract
198 EMTs, Paramedics, and Dispatchers Win Better Protections, Higher Wages
(BEAVERTON, Ore.) - Emergency medical service dispatchers, technicians, and paramedics at American Medical Response (AMR) in Washington County represented by Teamsters Local 223 have overwhelmingly ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. The three-year agreement includes wage increases, signing bonuses, an eight percent 401(k)match, and improved vacation language.
"This contract is the first labor agreement for EMS workers in our area," said Megan Conti, a member of the negotiating committee. "It's remarkable to have been a part of this landmark accomplishment and to see the fruit of organized labor pay off in the form of a strong collective bargaining agreement."
Local 223 represents nearly 600 emergency medical service workers in Washington, Clackamas, and Multnomah Counties and will continue to fight for industry-leading contracts for first responders throughout Oregon.
"AMR Teamsters remained steadfast and determined to win the strongest possible first contract, and now, they have it," said Austin DePaolo, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 223. "Our union -- along with Teamsters Local 58 -- is proud to represent nearly 1,000 essential EMS workers across the greater Portland area. The highly skilled work that these Teamsters provide saves lives, keeps our communities safe, and deserves the protections of a strong union contract."
Since 1938, Teamsters Local 223 has proudly represented 2,200 workers in Oregon and Washington. For more information, visit teamsters223.com.
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Original text here: https://teamster.org/2025/03/first-responders-in-oregon-secure-teamsters-contract/
Breakthru Beverage Workers in Virginia Beach Join Teamsters Local 822
WASHINGTON, March 31 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Breakthru Beverage Workers in Virginia Beach Join Teamsters Local 822
Press Contact: Matt McQuaid Phone: (771) 241-0015 Email: mmcquaid@teamster.org
(VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) - Drivers at Breakthru Beverage in Virginia Beach have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 822.
"Breakthru workers in Virginia Beach know that the best way to secure better wages, safer working conditions, and a voice on the job is with a Teamsters contract," said James Wright, Local 822
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WASHINGTON, March 31 [Category: Union] -- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters posted the following news release:
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Breakthru Beverage Workers in Virginia Beach Join Teamsters Local 822
Press Contact: Matt McQuaid Phone: (771) 241-0015 Email: mmcquaid@teamster.org
(VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) - Drivers at Breakthru Beverage in Virginia Beach have voted overwhelmingly to join Teamsters Local 822.
"Breakthru workers in Virginia Beach know that the best way to secure better wages, safer working conditions, and a voice on the job is with a Teamsters contract," said James Wright, Local 822President and Teamsters International Vice-President At-Large. "We look forward to fighting alongside them to get these workers the contract they deserve."
The vote to join Local 822 is the latest success in a series of victories that the union has had at the national beverage distribution conglomerate. In California, the union won a first contract after a successful 24 hour strike. In Florida, Teamsters are currently bargaining a first contract for 160 workers at six different locations.
"The power that you have with the rest of your coworkers will certainly put power behind whatever it is you're demanding out of your employer," said Jackson Renager, a Breakthru driver. "Everybody's trying to nickel and dime their workers these days, and it's hard to get a living wage. I have to work two jobs at the moment. No American should be having to work two full-time jobs just to stay afloat."
Teamsters Local 822 represents over 3,000 workers across the Tidewater Area working in a variety of industries. For more information, visit www.teamsters822.com.
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Original text here: https://teamster.org/2025/03/breakthru-beverage-workers-in-virginia-beach-join-teamsters-local-822/
New Executive Order: A Blatant Attack on Workers' Rights and a Clear Example of Union-Busting
WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of School Administrators issued the following news:
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New Executive Order: A Blatant Attack on Workers' Rights and a Clear Example of Union-Busting
The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) is deeply concerned about the new executive order issued by President Donald Trump, which represents a direct attack on workers' rights across the federal government. Straight out of Project 2025, this order embodies the very definition of union-busting. It strips federal employees of their fundamental right to unionize and collectively
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WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of School Administrators issued the following news:
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New Executive Order: A Blatant Attack on Workers' Rights and a Clear Example of Union-Busting
The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) is deeply concerned about the new executive order issued by President Donald Trump, which represents a direct attack on workers' rights across the federal government. Straight out of Project 2025, this order embodies the very definition of union-busting. It strips federal employees of their fundamental right to unionize and collectivelybargain, impacting more than 30 agencies and undermining the protections workers rely on to ensure their voices are heard on the job.
This executive order dismantles the ability of federal workers--those who safeguard our food, care for veterans, protect public health, and perform countless other essential services--to organize for better conditions, fairer pay, and increased job security. It removes their voice from the workplace and prevents them from collaborating with their colleagues to improve their ability to serve the public effectively.
The fight for collective bargaining at the federal level is the fight for all unions. When one union is under attack, all unions are under attack. This is not just an assault on federal workers--it is a direct challenge to the rights of every worker in this country. This is a fight for the collective strength of the labor movement, for the fundamental right to organize, and for the protection of working conditions that unions have fought for over generations.
We will not allow Trump and his billionaire allies to destroy what generations of workers have fought tirelessly to build. The labor movement will not be silenced, and we will not stand idly by while our members are stripped of their fundamental rights.
Now is the time for every American who believes in workers' rights to stand louder than ever. Reach out to your congressional representative and tell them to support unions. We will not let this government dismantle the rights and protections that unions have secured over decades of hard work. Our fight has just begun.
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Original text here: https://www.theschoolleader.org/news/new-executive-order-blatant-attack-workers-rights-and-clear-example-union-busting
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NABTU STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ATTACK ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following news release on March 28, 2025:
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NABTU STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ATTACK ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Today, North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey released the following statement:
"For over a century -- through wars, depressions, good times and bad -- collective bargaining has been the one thing working people could count on. This executive order is an unprecedented assault on worker freedom and a direct attack on those fundamental rights. Americans know
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WASHINGTON, March 29 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following news release on March 28, 2025:
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NABTU STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ATTACK ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
Today, North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey released the following statement:
"For over a century -- through wars, depressions, good times and bad -- collective bargaining has been the one thing working people could count on. This executive order is an unprecedented assault on worker freedom and a direct attack on those fundamental rights. Americans knowthat patriotic blue-collar workers built this country, not billionaires. They also know that one of the last best chances to make it to the middle class is collective bargaining. NABTU and our affiliated unions will stand shoulder to shoulder with the entire labor movement to fight this head-on -- and we will not back down."
About NABTU: North America's Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest almost $2 billion in private-sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained, and most productive, skilled craft workers found anywhere in the world. NABTU is dedicated to creating economic security and employment opportunities for its construction workers by safeguarding wage and benefits standards, promoting responsible private capital investments, investing in renowned apprenticeship and training, and creating more construction career pathways to the middle class for women, communities of color, Indigenous people, veterans, and the justice-involved. For more information, please visit nabtu.org.
Media Contact:
Betsy Barrett,
202/997-3266
bbarrett@nabtu.org
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Original text here: https://nabtu.org/press_releases/nabtu-statement-on-trump-administration-attack-on-collective-bargaining/
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IATSE on Executive Order Attacking Federal Workers' Labor Rights: 'Once a Union Buster, Always a Union Buster.'
NEW YORK, March 29 -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees issued the following news release:
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IATSE on Executive Order Attacking Federal Workers' Labor Rights: 'Once a union buster, always a union buster.'
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) condemns the Trump administration's executive order stripping ~700,000 federal workers of their right to join together and collectively bargain. This unfounded and politically motivated attack on workers and freedom of speech, freedom of contract, and freedom of association constitutes the most
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NEW YORK, March 29 -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees issued the following news release:
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IATSE on Executive Order Attacking Federal Workers' Labor Rights: 'Once a union buster, always a union buster.'
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) condemns the Trump administration's executive order stripping ~700,000 federal workers of their right to join together and collectively bargain. This unfounded and politically motivated attack on workers and freedom of speech, freedom of contract, and freedom of association constitutes the mostegregious attack on the labor movement in United States history.
The Administration is attempting to silence the very workers who inspect our food, care for our veterans, and protect our communities. Why? Because as workers we have real power when we stand together, and the President knows it. It's retaliation against unions for doing their legal duty: stand up and defend workers on the job, in court, and in Congress. These rights-stripping executive actions are a warning to every working person in this country: if you use your free speech to stand up for yourself, you're next.
The Administration's actions are the very definition of union-busting and we've seen it before. In 2004, then-reality TV host Donald Trump crossed an IATSE picket line in New York City during a labor dispute on The Apprentice. Today, we see nothing has changed. Once a union buster, always a union buster.
Entertainment workers know what it means to fight for a voice on the job. Behind the scenes, IATSE members build the sets, light the stages, and so much more to make the magic happen. Like Federal workers, our work can feel invisible--and too often we are treated as expendable. That's why solidarity matters. When one group of workers loses their rights, it weakens all of us. When one group is silenced, the entire labor movement must amplify its voice in unison.
Unions aren't going anywhere. A strong 70% supermajority of Americans approve of the labor movement, far higher than the approval of any politician in either political party. Now is the time to organize, mobilize, and fight back together.
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees or IATSE (full name: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada), is a labor union representing over 170,000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live events, motion picture and television production, broadcast, and trade shows in the United States and Canada.
For more information please contact:
General: comms@iatse.net
Press: press@iatse.net
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Original text here: https://iatse.net/iatse-on-executive-order-attacking-federal-workers-labor-rights-once-a-union-buster-always-a-union-buster/
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AFSCME responds to ruling restraining shutdown of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America
WASHINGTON, March 29 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) issued the following news release:
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AFSCME responds to ruling restraining shutdown of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America
NEW YORK - AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to cease further efforts to shutter the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America (VOA):
"For now, the billionaires running this administration must pause their campaign to silence free
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WASHINGTON, March 29 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) issued the following news release:
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AFSCME responds to ruling restraining shutdown of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America
NEW YORK - AFSCME President Lee Saunders released the following statement after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to cease further efforts to shutter the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America (VOA):
"For now, the billionaires running this administration must pause their campaign to silence freeand fair reporting.
The government tried to argue that our case had no basis while at the same time releasing a reduction in force plan to lay off all AFSCME members at Voice of America - whose work is mandated by Congress.
From AFSCME-represented audio engineers to journalists and more, USAGM workers are integral in distributing news to people living in oppressive regimes, and we will keep fighting against these unconstitutional attacks on their freedoms."
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Original text here: http://origin-afscme.bytrilogy.com/press/releases/2025/afscme-responds-to-ruling-restraining-shutdown-of-the-u-s-agency-for-global-media-and-voice-of-america
