The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced on Thursday that it canceled a collective bargaining agreement with its workers and that it roams them from trade union rights, the most recent step by the Trump administration to Darbeitschutz for federal employees.
The director William K. Marshall III. Informed the agency’s almost 35,000 employees that the union, the council of prison home, had become an obstacle to progress instead of a partner. The contract said “too often slowed or prevented” changes to improve security and morality.
“The entire purpose of termination of this contract is to make their lives better,” wrote Marshall in a message published on the agency’s website. He said that the agency would “progress with solutions that work without roadblocks, without excuses and with a goal: make the office a place where people are proud to serve.”
The President of the Union, Brandy Moore-White, said that the termination of the collective agreement, which was to run by May 2029, would endanger the security and livelihood of employees to endure the threatening conditions to protect occupants, employees and municipalities.
“We will absolutely fight this tooth and nail!” she said.
The prison office operates 122 facilities and has around 155,000 inmates. It has an annual budget of more than 8.5 billion US dollars. The largest employer of the Ministry of Justice has been plagued by severe understatement for years, which has long since led to the time layers and the operate of nurses, teachers, chefs and other employees of prisons to protect occupants.
The agency has a repair back of 3 billion US dollars, thousands of positions are free and an official informed the congress in February that more than 4,000 beds are unusable due to threatening conditions such as undemanding roofs, mold, asbestos or lead.
In a letter on Thursday, in which Moore-White was informed about the move, Marshall quoted an executive regulation that signed President Donald Trump in March, which paid out the federal equipment, the counter-spy, investigative and national security authorities from collective bargaining or recognition of unions of employees.
A few weeks before Trump signed the executive regulation, the Ministry of Homeland Protection gave that it ended its collective agreements with employees of the transport security administration that examined passengers and luggage at airports and other travel centers. The union sued and a judge issued an injunction in June that recorded the contract.
Marshall announced Moore-White that union fees are no longer collected and that the employees are no longer right to represent the union during sessions with management, investigative interviews or other procedures.
In his message on Thursday to the employees of the Bureau of Prison, Marshall said that even without a union or tariff pact, they would continue to enable tough protection according to the public service of the federal government and the rights of the Federal Whistleblower rights.
For no reason and proper procedures, employees are not removed, suspended or downgraded, he wrote. Payment and services, including salary, retirement, health insurance, overtime, vacation delimitation and uniform allowances are guaranteed by law and remain unchanged.
“These protective measures are not going anywhere,” said Marshall. “This is not about taking things away, it’s about giving them more. More clarity. More fairness. More respect.”
The prison office has been in a current state since Trump in January.
His mission was expanded under the administration of the Republicans to include thousands of immigration prisoners in some of his prisons and prisons as part of an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security.
In May, Trump instructed the prison office to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz – the notorious prison on an island in San Francisco Bay, which recently held occupants more than 60 years ago. Four months later it remains a tourist attraction.
The prison office closed several institutions last year, partly to reduce the costs, but it is also in the process of building a modern prison in Kentucky. In May, Marshall said that the agency hired some settings.
An ongoing examination of Associated Press has uncovered deeply, previously unmaid defects in the prisons’ office, including rampant sexual abuse, widespread criminal activities by employees, dozens of refugees and the free flow of weapons, drugs and other smells.
With mortars, sexual predators and other violent criminals who work face to face face to face, federal agency is routinely threatened and harassed, and some have been accelerated, stabbed or even killed.
Last year, a mailroom supervisor of the US prison died in Atwater, California after opening a letter from which the prosecutors were laced with fentanyl and other substances. In the federal prison in Thomson, Illinois, a union officer said, female employees are subject to more than 1,600 cases of sexual harassment and abuse by occupants in four years.
