Republicans Block Alsobrooks’ Amendments to Protect Collective Bargaining for Federal Workers, to Save Federal Workers’ Jobs, and More

April 4, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC - Tonight, Republicans voted down Senator Angela Alsobrooks' (D-Md.) amendment that would have protected collective bargaining for federal workers.

"To threaten the ability of federal workers to organize and to pursue collective bargaining is to threaten all our brothers and sisters in organized labor.

"This President is terrified of power centered with the people.

"I called up an amendment tonight that would reverse Trump's illegal executive order gutting federal workers' rights to collective bargaining.

"Republicans blocked it.

"It's shameful. It's callous.

"We will not stop fighting back."

Senator Alsobrooks also led nine other amendments, all of which Republicans blocked or refused to bring to the Floor:

1. Preventing attacks on the collective bargaining agreements of nurses' unions at VA locations.
2. Preventing a reduction in force at the Department of Health and Human Services that would put our seniors and children at risk.
3. Preventing a reorganization of divisions at the Department of Health and Human Services that would undermine efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, health disparities, and pandemic preparedness.
4. Preventing a reduction in force to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights that would hinder or delay investigations into antisemitism and other forms of discrimination.
5. Preventing an indiscriminate reduction in force of probationary employees at federal agencies.
6. Preventing a reduction in force at the Social Security Administration that would delay or hinder Americans' access to services or social security benefits.
7. Protecting civil servants from workforce reductions that would threaten public safety, public health, the economy, or national security.
8. Prohibiting tax increases on Single Family Homes.
9. Requiring the U.S. International Trade Commission to conduct a Section 332 Investigation into the impacts on businesses and consumers of tariffs on Mexico and Canada.

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