Trump Sues to Void Treasury Department Workers’ Union Deal (2)

The Trump administration sued to nullify the Treasury Department’s labor contract with the nation’s second largest federal union.

The lawsuit against an affiliate of the National Treasury Employees Union, docketed Monday, references President Donald Trump‘s order directing agencies across the executive branch to stop collective bargaining with federal unions. In his order, Trump cited a 1978 law that empowers him to prohibit employees whose work “directly affects national security” from organizing. His directive included the Treasury Department, even though portions of its workforce aren’t clearly involved in that effort.

The union contracts “restrict the president’s ability to manage the ...