President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining for government employees whose work include national security aspects.

A VA spokesperson told Newsweek that the department will make accommodations so employees "have enough space to work" in "secure facilities."

Thousands of federal workers may lose the right to unionize after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that would ban employees in several departments and agencies from doing so.

A formerly remote federal worker had to report to an office they'd never heard of that has a trickier commute. It felt illogical and a little cruel.

I don’t feel like I’m going back into a job in which I have a future,” one Massachusetts-based fired federal worker said.

In a class action complaint, the former employees also said that the mass firings violated their First Amendment rights for perceived political stances.

President Donald Trump is trying to revoke collective bargaining rights from most federal employees — the latest move in his aggressive campaign to weaken the federal workforce. Trump issued an executive order late Thursday night relying on a rarely used provision of the federal labor laws that authorizes the president to exclude agencies from long-standing unionization rights if he determines that those agencies are primarily engaged in national security work.

President Donald Trump’s administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have set out to shrink the federal workforce as they cut costs.

An appeals court in California has refused to halt a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were let go in mass firings.