The Department of Veterans Affairs appeared to be the first agency to begin terminating union contracts, affecting more than 400,000 workers.

Unionization is the one thing which has kept wages up and working conditions decent for federal workers.

    • @chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
      1•13 days ago

      Yeah, but thats just air traffic control. The situation is also very different now with DOGE eliminating any trust in job stability, and many looking for a way out anyeays since the perks of working as a fed are erroding anyways. They simply cant fire everyone, because they already fired too many people.

      Regan was able to backfill the controllers with the military in the interim. Thats simply not possible for every job that exists in the government.

      The alternative is to give up on unions altogether because if they have no teeth then there is no point paying dues.