Protect America’s Workforce Act

Protect America's Workforce Act

This bill nullifies two executive orders: Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs (issued on March 27, 2025) and Further Exclusions From the Federal Labor- Management Relations Program (issued on August 28, 2025). The executive orders exclude specified executive branch agencies and subdivisions from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute and the Foreign Service Labor-Management Relations Statute. The statutes authorize federal employees' participation in collective bargaining and enforce collective bargaining rights. 

The bill also specifies that a collective bargaining agreement that is in place as of March 26, 2025, and is between an executive branch agency and any labor organization that is an exclusive representative of federal employees, shall have full force and effect through the stated term of the agreement.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2837 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2837

To nullify certain Executive orders relating to exclusions from Federal 
      labor-management relations programs, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 17 (legislative day, September 16), 2025

 Mr. Warner (for himself, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Schatz, Mr. 
  Padilla, Ms. Alsobrooks, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Murkowski, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. 
Bennet, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Booker, Ms. Cantwell, 
Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Coons, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Fetterman, 
      Mr. Gallego, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Hassan, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. 
Hickenlooper, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Kim, Mr. King, Ms. Klobuchar, 
   Mr. Lujan, Mr. Markey, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Murphy, Mrs. Murray, Mr. 
Ossoff, Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Ms. Rosen, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. 
 Shaheen, Ms. Slotkin, Ms. Smith, Mr. Warnock, Ms. Warren, Mr. Welch, 
Mr. Whitehouse, and Mr. Wyden) introduced the following bill; which was 
   read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
                          Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To nullify certain Executive orders relating to exclusions from Federal 
      labor-management relations programs, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protect America's Workforce Act''.

SEC. 2. NULLIFICATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS RELATING TO EXCLUSIONS FROM 
              FEDERAL LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS PROGRAMS.

    Executive Order 14251 (90 Fed. Reg. 14553; relating to exclusions 
from Federal labor-management relations programs) and Executive Order 
14343 (90 Fed. Reg. 42683; relating to further exclusions from the 
Federal labor-management relations program) shall have no force or 
effect, and no Federal funds may be obligated or expended to carry out 
either such Executive order.

SEC. 3. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS.

    Any collective bargaining agreement in effect as of March 26, 2025, 
between any agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government 
and any labor organization that is an exclusive representative of 
Federal employees shall have full force and effect through the stated 
term of the applicable agreement.
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