Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Biden Signs Executive Order Killing Schedule F, Restoring Collective Bargaining Rights The president also named Federal Labor Relations Authority Member Ernest DuBester to serve as the agency’s chairman. Fulfilling a campaign promise, President Biden signed an executive order Friday afternoon rescinding a series of orders issued by former President Trump aimed at gutting federal employee unions and stripping federal workers of their civil service protections. The Trump administration was aggressive in its approach to the federal workforce, and labor groups in particular. In 2018, Trump signed a series of executive orders seeking to make it easier to fire federal workers, streamline labor-management negotiations and restrict the scope of collective bargaining, and severely restricting the use of official time.