Trump Strips Job Protections from 8,000 Federal Workers

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that strips job protections from nearly 8,000 federal workers who are in policy-making roles, making it easier for the administration to fire them. This policy known as Schedule F is a bureaucratic name for changing the rules to let President Trump fire the federal workers who make our essential services run and replace them with political loyalists — a move ripped from the pages of Project 2025.

"President Trump’s executive order betrays a foundational American value: that our government works for the people, not for one man’s political agenda," said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. "Schedule P/C is the next phase in Trump’s anti-worker agenda to replace government workers with political loyalists who answer only to him. As we’ve seen from his first day in office, the president is determined to tear down the architecture of our federal government and replace it with a system of corruption to benefit powerful CEOs and billionaire union-busters.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers were fired or pushed out of their jobs, and a million were robbed of their collective bargaining rights and had their union contracts ripped up. The workers who run our country’s essential services have already suffered enough at the hands of this administration. 

When the administration tried to implement Schedule P/C earlier this year, we sued alongside our affiliate unions and partner organizations. Now Trump is trying again—but the labor movement will continue to stand in the way. The AFL-CIO is staying in this fight because we know the federal workers who serve America deserve better." Read more in the New York Times and NPR.