“This flexibility requires that military and civilian leadership manage their organizations to cultivate a lethal, agile force adaptive to new technologies and posture changes. Where collective bargaining is incompatible with these organizations’ missions, the Department of Defense should not be forced to sacrifice its national security mission and, instead, seek relief through third parties and administrative fora.”
Although it is not yet clear how Esper might use his new authority, a 2017 White House memo advocated “eliminating employee unions” at the Defense Department as part of a multi-pronged effort to weaken organize labor. Several other ideas floated in that document have since made it into administration policy actions and proposals
They had outlived their usefulness fifty years before you were even born and we’re specifically talking about unions for gov’t workers here who also have such things as civil service protections.
Federal gov’t employees are some of the most protected on the planet, it’s almost impossible to fire them except for the most egregious conduct and serious crimes.
