Deunionize The Federal Workforce
I & I Editorial Board
September 4, 2025
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Following President Pen-And-Phone and President Autopen, President Donald Trump is also making use of the White House quill. But his directives have tended to be more practical than political. For instance, last week he issued an executive order banning employee collective bargaining at a number of federal agencies.
The American people should be grateful that he’s willing to take on the bureaucracy that has nullified voters’ preferences and become an unaccountable political force – the real power in the country.
To support our point, we look back at the Obama administration’s IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups. It began the day after the late National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley visited the White House. A coincidence? Possibly. But it is not out of the realm that she was making a preemptive strike because Senate Republicans were thinking about banning unionization at the IRS. She needed to neuter the GOP.
NTEU members eventually admitted “they went after Obama’s political opponents with the full power of the federal government.”
Across all federal departments and agencies, unions have taken on the authority that elected officials have ceded to them.
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