WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand issued the following press release:
Yesterday, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, along with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Congressmen Paul Tonko (D-NY) and John Mannion (D-NY), criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's unilateral termination of collective bargaining rights for 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) employees. These include more than 1,400 civilian defense workers at Fort Drum and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) in Rome, New York in addition to nearly 800 civilian employees at Watervliet Arsenal in New York's Capital Region.
The termination, which took place on April 9, impacted employees who have "ded...