A Biden presidency could change relationships with federal unions – By Jessie Bur (Federal Times) / January 14 2021
President Donald Trump’s relationship with collective bargaining groups in the federal government could not be characterized as a healthy one.
Beginning with the Trump administration’s efforts to make federal employees easier to remove and to restructure federal pay and benefits, the relationship between Trump officials and union leaders fell even further with the signing of three executive orders that restricted unions’ ability to operate within government agencies and mandated a hardline approach to collective bargaining negotiations.
A lawsuit claiming that such orders violated the original intent of Congress in establishing legal protections for federal collective bargaining initially barred such orders from implementation, but an appeal on that decision found that the federal courts were not an appropriate avenue for challenging the orders.
