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The bill protects federal employees' negotiated pay, benefits, and union protections and avoids implementation costs, at the cost of constraining executive flexibility to reform labor rules and risking short-term higher personnel costs and continued inefficiencies.
Federal employees and labor unions: existing collective bargaining agreements and labor-management protections remain in force, preserving negotiated pay, benefits, working conditions, and contract stability.
Taxpayers: the bill prevents federal spending to implement the nullified executive order, avoiding costs that would have been incurred to change labor-management programs.
Federal agencies and agency leaders: the bill restricts Executive-branch flexibility to manage or reform federal labor relations, limiting their ability to adjust staffing, pay, or work rules during contract periods.
Taxpayers: existing contracts may lock in higher pay or benefits and prevent agency savings or restructuring, producing potential short-term increases in personnel costs.
Federal employees and taxpayers: preserving current labor-management rules also preserves practices critics argue need reform, potentially maintaining inefficiencies in federal workforce operations.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Annuls a March 27, 2025 Executive Order on federal labor exclusions, bars federal funding to implement it, and preserves collective bargaining agreements active March 26, 2025 through their terms.
Official title: To nullify the Executive Order relating to Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 1, 2025 by Jared Golden · Last progress December 15, 2025
Nullifies a March 27, 2025 Executive Order that would have excluded some federal employees and agencies from existing federal labor-management relations programs and blocks any federal funds from implementing that order. It also preserves any collective bargaining agreements that were in effect on March 26, 2025, keeping them enforceable through their stated terms. The bill preserves current bargaining arrangements between executive-branch agencies and exclusive employee representatives, prevents the administration from using funds to implement the stated Executive Order, and maintains existing contract rights for covered federal employees during the agreements’ terms.