Erich Wagner at Government Executive reports the Trump Administration has apparently ceased collecting Federal Workers’ Union Dues via voluntary payroll deduction at agencies targeted by a recent Executive Order seeking to strip Employees of their Collective Bargaining Rights without notice, leaving Labor Unions in financial upheaval. Last month, Trump signed the order  citing a rarely used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to exempt agencies from Federal Labor Law under the guise of “national security.” The edict, which also carves out non-National Security Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Communications Commission, collectively strips two-thirds of the Federal Workforce of their right to join and be represented by a Union. The Administration has filed multiple lawsuits in Federal Courts staffed with only Republican-appointed Judges seeking the legal go-ahead to terminate Union contracts at agencies targeted by the order. Despite those suits’ suggestion the Administration would wait for such a decision before repudiating Collective Bargaining Agreements, Unions say the government’s three main payroll processors have all surreptitiously ceased collecting Union Dues directly from employees’ paychecks. International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Union President Matt Biggs says the news trickled out this week as Employees began receiving their paychecks and Union Locals stopped receiving payments.

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