The Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing the federal workforce, has significantly cut over half of its staff across the country and is responsible for President Trump and his enforcement actions.
AFGE has fired more than 200 employees and is expected to move from 355 workers to around 150, the union confirmed with Hill on Friday. This includes more than 100 workers in dozens of offices in the US
Union national representatives, support staff, organizers and more will be affected by the reductions.
Layoffs deal a blow, but the union 820,000 Federal and Washington, DC, Government Workersclaimed the fight over federal employee rights would not slow down.
“From day one, this administration has been trying to break the voices of patriotic civil servants, and these attacks on their unions are no exception,” AFGE said in a statement. “The elimination of the president’s elective fees and the resulting layoffs are set-offs, but they are not the end of AFGE, not the long shot.”
The group said, “We will not be suppressed, silenced, submissive or threatened by submission. Whether it’s courts, Capitol Hill or the media, AFGE will continue to be high and will continue to defend the rights of American civil servants.”
AFGE has filed several lawsuits ranging from preventing government efficiency and its top advisor Elon Musk from accessing sensitive employee data to banning termination of probation employees.
The organization is part of a network of federal employee unions and advocacy groups that launched a legal defense group called “Rise Up,” and provides advice to thousands of government workers who have been recently fired.
In late March, Trump also wrote an executive order to end the union rights of workers in numerous federal agencies. Since then, the department has stopped workers from automatically deducting union membership fees from their pay.
That’s what the cut was First reported Associated Press.
