The committee rejected moves by Democrats seeking documents from the Trump administration related to its firing of nearly 20 IGs. Image: Katherine Welles/Shutterstock.com
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has passed a bill (HR-2249) to allow an incoming President to disavow any existing collective bargaining agreements with unions representing federal employees.
This bill would also make unenforceable a contract provision that the President consider or an agency considers in conflict with a newly issued executive order or presidential memorandum, or agency guidance to carry one out.
The committee also approved: HR-1295, to reinstate an authority not used for four decades to require a vote in Congress within 90 days after a President proposes a government reorganization plan; HR-1210, to effectively end official time and free use by unions of agency office space and equipment by requiring federal unions to reimburse agencies for their value; and HR-2174, to prohibit agencies including the Postal Service from withholding union dues from employee pay distributions.
“Taken together, these four bills would have a profoundly negative impact on federal workers and their ability to organize and have a voice in the workplace. They would undermine workplace fairness, disrupt labor-management relations, and strip employees of their rights to freely associate and represent one another,” the AFGE union said.
Also approved were HR-2277, to extend through 2026 the work of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, which conducts oversight of pandemic relief funds and leverages data analytics capabilities for agency inspectors genera, and rename it as the Fraud Prevention and Accountability Committee; and HR-2193, to require federal agencies to verify the eligibility of persons covered as family members in the FEHB program, following a series of IG and GAO reports raising concerns about the cost of ineligible persons being covered.
The committee meanwhile rejected moves by Democrats seeking documents from the Trump administration related to its firing of nearly 20 IGs and of other federal employees; and related to the activities of Elon Musk and the DOGE project in federal agencies.
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