Secret Trump memo details plans to destroy government workers' unions
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By Mark Gruenberg

WASHINGTON-The Government Employees (AFGE), the nation's largest union for federal workers, has summarized and is publishing, in five installments, a secret Trump administration memo outlining in detail how President Donald Trump and his ideologues systematically plan to destroy federal worker unions. AFGE adds its own analysis. Part 1 and Part 2 have already appeared, with three more to come.

And private-sector workers and unions are next on Trump's hit list, the memo promises.

The memo by Trump White House aide James Sherk, a former "fellow" at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, is being posted and analyzed on AFGE's website. It includes restoring Republican President George W. Bush's ban on unionization of the nation's 45,000 airport screeners. And that's just for starters.

It also would ban unions for the Defense Department's 200,000 civilian workers, the hundreds of thousands of workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and workers at the Department of Homeland Security and the federal Office of Personnel Management-the government's human resources agency-itself. Trump also wants to abolish OPM.

Killing OPM and transferring its oversight of federal workers to unaccountable White House aides would bring back the spoils system of the 1880s and before, union leaders say.

"The memo, laced with familiar half-truths and outright lies, is proof AFGE has been right all along in saying...

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