Erich Wagner at Government Executive reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has instructed leaders to terminate most of the Department’s Collective Bargaining Agreements, more than a year after President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order banning Federal Employee Unions from many agencies on national security grounds. Spared are Unions like the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers and the Federal Education Association, who both secured preliminary injunctions blocking implementation of the Executive Order, which cites a seldom-used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to strip two-thirds of the Federal Workforce of their Collective Bargaining Rights on national security grounds, last Fall. But not so for the Nation’s largest Federal Employee Union. American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley decried Hegseth’s decision as “cowardly.”

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