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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2025 – The IAM Union wrote a letter urging all members of Congress to support the process for successful passage of the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550), bipartisan legislation that would restore collective bargaining rights stripped from federal workers by President Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order.
A bipartisan group of 218 House members signed the discharge petition (H. Res. 432), forcing consideration of the bill introduced by U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine). The measure would nullify the executive order titled Exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs, which removes collective bargaining rights from roughly 75% of the federal workforce.
“Federal workers matter,” wrote IAM Union International President Brian Bryant. “These are hard-working individuals who are our neighbors, our relatives and our friends, and they’ve taken the civic duty to ensure our nation keeps moving forward. Federal workers deserve the right of collective bargaining, which provides protections in the workplace and better service to the public, just to name a few benefits.”
The IAM, one of the most diverse labor unions in the country, represents thousands of federal workers, including the 110,000 federal employees of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM), the IAM’s federal sector affiliate.
The IAM strongly supports this bipartisan effort to restore collective bargaining rights to our nation’s federal workforce and is calling on all members of Congress to vote to move this critical legislation forward.
Read the complete letter here.
The IAM Union (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) is one of North America’s largest and most diverse industrial trade unions, representing approximately 600,000 active and retired members in the aerospace, defense, airlines, shipbuilding, railroad, transit, healthcare, automotive, and other industries across the United States and Canada.
