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House Republicans Cross Aisle to Advance Bill Restoring Federal Workers’ Union Rights

HeadlineDec 12, 2025

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to reverse President Trump’s executive orders stripping 1 million unionized federal workers at 40 federal agencies of their collective bargaining rights. Twenty Republicans joined Democrats to send the legislation to the Senate, over the objections of House Republican leaders who opposed the bill. Randy Erwin, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, wrote, “The president cannot unilaterally strip working people of their constitutional freedom of association. In bipartisan fashion, Congress has asserted their authority to hold the president accountable for the biggest attack on workers that this country has ever seen.”

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