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Before the American Chamber of Representatives He left early At the August break on Tuesday, 209 members joined the attempt to vote on the Act, which would annul the executive ordinance of President Donald Trump, who deprive Union of the Union of about two-thirds of the federal labor force-but these are nine necessary thresholds.
In the Light of the Republican majority, she has refused to bring the democratic US representative Jared Golden’s Protect America’s Working for A Floor Voice, Golden last week introduced a petition with writingwho, if approved by 218 members, would force a voice on the act.
Second representative of Maine, Democrat Chellie Pingree, Signed a petition with payments The day when Golden introduced it. Until now, only two Republicans have been supported by. Brian Fitzpatrick from Pennsylvania, who introduced the bill from Golden, and Bill Cosponsor Rep. Don Bacon from Nebrask-although the bill has seven GOP co-consonants from a total 222.
“The Chamber is now interrupted until September, but Congresmen Golden will continue working, in Solidarity with a million employees throughout the country, whose collective rights to negotiate have been deprived of Trump’s ordinance, so that House takes action to restore employees’ rights,” said his spokesman.
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Fitzpatrick did not immediately answer at the request for a comment from the capital star. But, in a statement, when the law was introduced, he said: “Improving government performance is necessary – but broad exclusion from collective negotiations are a blunt instrument that the risk weakens the stability and performance that we want to strengthen.”
Trump executive order On March 27, he banned collective agreements in government agencies with “National Security Interests”. These include the Department of Defense, Veterans Department of Affairs, the American Agency for Immigration and Customs and Environmental Protection, among many others, generally affecting about two -thirds of the federal labor force.
The White House said in an information sheet, which accompanied the order that “some federal unions announced a war with President Trump’s program” and that the order would be necessary to protect American interests.
The coalition of unions required shortly thereafter, but according to the last decision issued last week, the Federal Court of Appeal allowed Trump’s administration to implement the executive order.
While the house is Take a breakMembers of the Union will not.
Mia Jacobs, director of media relations of the unions, director of media relations of the Unions, director of media media relations, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations plan to mobilize their members in representatives of representatives who did not sign a petition regarding dismissals.
This organization throughout the country has already begun. On Monday, the “Better in a Union” STOP from Pittsburg ended with a call to act for participants to contact Congress members to sign a petition regarding the release.
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“Collective negotiating executive ordinance was the greatest trade union act of destructive in our history,” said Jacobs, “Union members understand the rate that if they can deprive federal employees of their collective rights, then contracts for a million employees are at risk, so it is something that is important for the workers’ movement.”
While the petition with writing still requires greater support, Jacobs said that the current support and 222 double -sided co -chips of the Act show that the problem has broad support. This also applies mainly to the general public as Surveys show About 70% of Americans approve trade unions, crossing party lines.
The petition with writing will start from 209 signatures, when the Chamber returns in September and remain energetic as long as the basic bill is, so for the entire congress, which is to end at the beginning of 2027.
