An as-yet unpublished executive order purports to utilize a little-used provision allowing the president to restrict collective bargaining for national security reasons to exempt most federal jobs from union protections.

President Donald Trump moved Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law.

JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.

An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.

President Donald Trump has moved to strip collective bargaining for a host of government agencies, stepping up his battle with the federal workforce. The move, announced late Thursday, will affect hundreds of thousands of workers and the unions that represent them at the Department of Defense,

President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.

An executive order on Thursday aimed to end collective bargaining for workers at numerous departments and agencies.

The administration cited "national security" concerns in moving to end collective bargaining at EPA, DOE, the National Science Foundation and parts of