An executive order (EO) signed by President Trump on Thursday (Aug. 28) — just before millions of Americans began their Labor Day holiday weekend — removes NASA employees from federal labor-management protections, eliminating collective bargaining rights for the space agency's civil servants under the justification of national security.
The order affects several thousand engineers, scientists and technicians across every NASA center, and strips away long-standing union rights that were emplaced to protect more than half the agency's workforce. The move marks the largest rollback of labor protections for NASA's employees in history.
