FEMA, USCIS Sever Contracts With Employee Unions: The Brief

TWO Department of Homeland Security agencies broke off contracts with worker unions as President Donald Trump’s campaign against the federal workforce expands, Ellen M. Gilmer and Andrew Kreighbaum report.

• The Federal Emergency Management Agency and US Citizenship and Immigration Services terminated agreements with worker unions late last week, according to union officials. “Under this directive, our bargaining unit at FEMA no longer has the contractual protections that we fought so hard to secure — except for a small group of exempted employees, such as police officers and firefighters,” Khaalis Jackson, president of the American Federation of Government Employees unit that ...