The Trump administration on Friday informed eight employees of their termination after their decision to sign a letter of dissatisfaction with the current policies in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Associated Press. Report.
The EPA said, “The Environmental Protection Agency has a zero-oppression policy for career officials using its agency’s status and title status and title to reduce the will of the American public, which was clearly expressed in the ballot box in the last November,” Washington PostWho reported the first firing.
There were hundreds of names in the letter and Anonymous signatories.
“Since the establishment of the agency in 1970, the EPA has completed the mission by taking advantage of science, funding and expert employees in the service of American people. Today, we stand together against the current administration’s attention to the current administration’s attention, and to disregard scientific expertise,” reads the letter.
Agency spokesman Caroline Holran told the post that the letter had misleading information and represents “small fractions of thousands of hard -working, dedicated EPA employees”.
The hill reached the EPA for comment.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), a labor association for federal workers, said EPA firing were illegal.
“AFGE Council 238 president Justin Chen said in a statement to the post,” The Reputation of the Trump administration and the EPA against these workers was clearly an attack on labor and free speech rights. ”
“It is clear that the action taken by the management was baseless and meant to identify the American public to identify potential losses and to punish any modicum which identified the agency’s mission.”
Another AFGE president said that the step was to scare fellow employees from speaking against the current administration and agency heads.
Nicole Cantelo President of AFGE Local 704, who represents 1,000 EPA workers in Chicago, Nicole Cantelo said, “They are trying to bid the agency and scare employees to ensure that they do not run publicly when the agency is not taking care of human health and environment.”
Six of the rejected employees were on probationary position and two other career employees, according to AP.
