Eloise Goldsmith is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Two unions representing federal employees filed a complaint in federal court on Wednesday arguing that U.S. President Donald Trump 'illegally exceeded his authority' by attempting to roll back Biden-era worker protections when he implemented his ' Schedule F ' executive order, a measure aimed at removing job protections for many career federal employees.
In a statement Wednesday, AFSCME president Lee Saunders said that Schedule F 'is a shameless attempt to politicize the federal workforce by replacing thousands of dedicated, qualified civil servants with political cronies.''Our union was born in the fight for a professional, nonpartisan civil service, and our communities will pay the price if these anti-union extremists are allowed to undo decades of progress by stripping these workers of their freedoms.
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