What is the federal employee union's response to the Trump administration's mass layoffs across federal agencies?

The largest federal employee union has strongly condemned the Trump administration's mass layoffs affecting multiple federal agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Education, and Environmental Protection Agency. The union characterizes these firings as "a blatant violation of the principles of fairness and merit that are supposed to govern federal employment." According to union representatives, these layoffs are not based on performance or merit but are fundamentally about political power. The cuts have significant implications for over 220,000 federal workers and represent a departure from traditional federal employment practices that prioritize fairness and merit-based decision making.