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Michael Sainato

MYSTERIOUS: Federal labor union sues trump administration over reclassification | Mind Blowing Facts

Trump smiling in to a camera
Schedule F changed civil service rules to allow for a broad swath of career federal employees to be fired. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

One day after Donald Trump returned to office, a leading government labor union filed a lawsuit against his administration’s reclassification of thousands of federal workers as political hires.

An executive order signed by the president – making public sector workers easier to fire – amounts to a “dangerous step backward”, according to the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents federal government employees across 37 agencies and departments.

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