Federal Unionist Network has scheduled a call to organize around the executive order signed by President Trump to end collective bargaining at agencies involved with national security. The order impacts employees across many federal agencies, including the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Treasury, and Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Communications Commission, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Justice and Commerce and the part of Homeland Security responsible for border security, according to the Associated Press (AP) and CNN.

Police and firefighters will continue to collectively bargain. the AP reports.

The AP reported: “The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said late Thursday that it is “‘preparing immediate legal action and will fight relentlessly to protect our rights, our members, and all working Americans from these unprecedented attacks.’”

Said the AFGE: “President Trump’s latest executive order is a disgraceful and retaliatory attack on the rights of hundreds of thousands of patriotic American civil servants — nearly one-third of whom are veterans — simply because they are members of a union that stands up to his harmful policies,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said.

The AP reported that “the Justice Department filed a lawsuit late Thursday in the Western District of Texas on behalf of eight agencies against AFGE affiliates.” Attorney General Pam Bondi said: “By affirmatively suing in Texas, we are aggressively protecting President Trump’s efforts to ensure unions no longer interfere in the national security functions of the government.”

Call-In Details:

The Federal Unionist Network’s call is on March 30th, at 5pm and is co-sponsored by American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE), International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), United Auto Workers (UAW), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Communications Workers of America (CWA). Click here for call-in details.

As published in their call to action:
”Trump has declared war on federal workers with an executive order which moves to end collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of civil servants, in order to cut the vital services on which all Americans depend.

“The good news is that this attack can be defeated. But that will require all of us — federal workers and community members hurt by these cuts — stepping up to organize our neighbors, co-workers, and friends to take to the streets.

“Sign up here for our Emergency Organizing Call Sunday March 30th at 5pm Eastern time.”

The agenda for the call includes:

Share information about what this executive order means.
Provide tips and tools to talk to (and involve) your neighbors, co-workers, and community.
Explain our campaign’s plan to win — and how you can get involved in building for the next big action on April 5.

“The time is now. To save our services, our unions, our democracy, we need each of us to step up and make history.”