Published December 16, 2024 4:00pm EST
Trump will fight Biden remote work deal; union vows to fight back
Trump said his administration will look to block 5-year remote work agreement between SSA and AFGE
By Eric Revell FOXBusiness
President-elect Trump on Monday indicated that he plans to push back on President Biden's move to reach an agreement that would allow tens of thousands of federal workers to remain in a hybrid work arrangement with telework through 2029.
"We're talking about a friendly takeover, a friendly transition as they like to say, this is a friendly transition, and it is," Trump said at a press conference. "But there are two events that took place that I think are very terrible."
"One is that if people don't come back to work, come back into the office, they're going to be dismissed, and somebody in the Biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that. So that for five years, people don't have to come back into the office," Trump said. "It involved 49,000 people for five years. They don't have to go. They just signed this thing. It's ridiculous. So it was like a gift to a union, and we're going to obviously be in court to stop it."
Trump's comments come after a deal was reached earlier this month between the largest federal workers' union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and the Social Security Administration (SSA) that "places current levels of telework into our National Agreement through October 25, 2029."
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