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Federal workers brace for Trump with morale ‘as low as it’s ever been’

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Trump 's return to office sets the stage for harassment, intimidation and corruption, union leader warns.

The president-elect and his allies have expressed support for the mass firing of civil service workers and abolishing certain government agencies.

Officials at the heart of Trump ’s first administration have spoken of purging thousands of federal workers by using controversial powers to reshape bureaucracy.

AFGE Local 1003 represents non-supervisory EPA employees in Texas and surrounding states.

During the first Trump administration, the union at the EPA was operating under an expired contract.

Under Trump , managers used a directive “which supplanted our expired contract at that time and caused a whole bunch of chaos, problems and headaches for the unions”.