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The Trump administration cancels public employee union contracts covering thousands of federal

workers, including at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection

Agency, arguing that they have missions that touch on national security, which makes them exempt from union collective bargaining.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues editorial board member, Manet Uquay-Brua and columnist Alicia Finley.

President Trump is making efforts on several fronts to exert control

over the federal workforce, including with his legal challenges to fire the heads of so-called

independent agencies. Now comes an effort to reach deeper into that federal org chart. President

Trump signed an order some months ago, citing the Civil Service Reform

Act of 1978 to end employee union bargaining at a range of federal agencies, citing a national

security exemption. After some initial court wrangling, those government bodies have now begun

canceling these contracts.

It began earlier this month with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which said it had terminated

agreements with five unions, including the American Federation of Government Employees,

or AFGE, which covers more than 300,000 workers at the VA.

Here is part of what VA Secretary Doug Collins said at the time, quote, too often unions that represent VA employees fight against the best interests of veterans while protecting and rewarding bad workers.

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