Multiple federal unions are already preparing to take legal action against Trump’s executive order, calling the move to end collective bargaining illegal.

The lawsuit states collective bargaining agreements with federal employees are a “serious impediment to effective agency operations and national security."

President Donald Trump signed the executive order under the Civil Service Reform Act to end collective bargaining with federal unions at agencies with national security missions.

The White House claims the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 gives the President the authority to cut off collective bargaining for these unions. But Alana Schaeffer, who oversees the unions at the shipyard, says terminating these contracts will do more harm than good.

The Writers Guild of America East pulled no punches today in decrying Donald Trump’s executive order to strip many workers of their right to unionize, calling Thursday’s move an “illegal attack on roughly 700,

President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions vow to sue.

President Trump took aim at collective bargaining for federal employees in certain agencies with an executive order he signed Thursday.

President Donald Trump moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law.