Restore Defense Workers’ Union Contracts
Our unions that represent federal workers are watchdogs, helping whistleblower employees raise concerns about corruption, waste, fraud and abuse at America’s government agencies without retaliation.
Which is precisely why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ripped up 300,000 civilian Department of Defense workers’ union contracts—including contracts for approximately 150,000 veterans.
But we have a way to stand up to Secretary Hegseth and undo part of the biggest act of union-busting in history.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an annual Department of Defense spending and policy bill that Congress should vote on before the end of the year, includes an amendment from Rep. Donald Norcross that would restore Department of Defense workers’ union rights. President Trump’s allies in Congress removed this amendment from the NDAA last year, and we need to make sure they don’t do it again.
It is time to right this wrong.
Americans across the political spectrum—Democrats, independents and Republicans—strongly support the freedom to have a union on the job. That’s why the current House of Representatives voted to overturn President Trump’s union-busting executive order for all federal workers last December.
But that bill got stuck in the Senate (for now). This is our chance to fix it, at least for our Department of Defense workers.
Supporting the defense workers who protect our national security and arming them with union contracts so they can blow the whistle on mismanagement and corruption in Hegseth’s Pentagon should be a no-brainer for Congress. Every member who says they stand with workers and veterans needs to prove it.
Tell Congress to restore union rights for defense workers in the NDAA today!
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