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The administration released the President’s Management Agenda this week, formalizing its goals to shrink the federal workforce and diminish employee unions.
The unusually brief one-page agenda outlines multiple policies that are harmful to frontline federal employees, and their right to bargain collectively and be represented by a union. Federal employees are familiar with the agenda’s objectives because they are contained in current executive orders, many of which are anti-worker and anti-union.
The agenda also misleadingly claims to support hiring employees based on skill and merit, but clearly the administration continues to pursue changes that would diminish merit-based hiring principles and open the door to political favoritism and patronage.
NTEU members can read more about the threats to the merit-based civil service.