Federal employee organizations and the House’s leading Democrat on federal workplace issues have denounced the Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill, with the AFGE union calling it “a direct assault on federal employees and their labor unions.”
Provisions to increase the costs for unions to operate in the workplace—which charging them a fee for payroll withholding of members’ dues—amount to “retaliation against AFGE and other unions for successfully standing up for our members and fighting this administration’s illegal attempts to obliterate our federal agencies and the patriotic civil servants who run our federal programs,” that union said.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Md., acting ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the measure “infringes upon collective bargaining rights of millions of hard-working, middle-class Americans and undermines basic employee protections and due process rights.”
