Key union vows to fight back after Trump says he would end remote work for federal employees

In a statement later Monday, AFGE National President Everett Kelley said the union would fight any effort to strip those protections. 'Collective bargaining agreements entered into by the federal government are binding and enforceable under the law. We trust the incoming administration will abide by their obligations to honor lawful union contracts. If they fail to do so, we will be prepared to enforce our rights,' Kelley said. 'Telework and remote work are tools that have helped the federal government increase productivity and efficiency, maintain continuity of operations, and increase disaster preparedness.'

Trump, who spoke to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort, called the deal 'very terrible,' and said it's interfering with his plans for how to handle the federal workforce, which includes ending remote work. He said he would seek to challenge the rule in court.

'If people don't come back to work, come back into the office they're going to be dismissed, and somebody in the Biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that, so that for five years people don't have to come back into the office,' Trump said at his first post-election news conference at Mar-a-Lago.

'They just signed this thing,' he said. 'So, it was like a gift to a union, and we are going to obviously be in court to stop it,' Trump added.

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