IRS Worker Union to Challenge Trump Move to Void Agreements

The union representing about two-thirds of the IRS workforce is fighting back against President Donald Trump’s moves to invalidate its contracts.

The National Treasury Employees Union plans to challenge the Trump administration’s Thursday executive order directing agencies across the executive branch to cease collective bargaining with federal unions, the union president said in statement Friday.

This move comes as Trump looks to shrink the federal workforce and abolish some agencies.

“The executive order to eliminate collective bargaining rights for federal employees across the government is a brazen attempt by the administration to ensure its reckless assault on vital federal agency services can continue unimpeded,” said NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald in a statement. “We will vigorously challenge this illegal order in court.”

• Trump’s administration also sued to void certain union contracts saying the agreements are impeding his efforts to reform the government and pose a threat to national security.
• Senate Republicans have advanced legislation that would bar federal employees from organizing or joining labor unions.
• “The Treasury Department collects the taxes that fund the government and ensures the stable operations of the financial system,” the White House said in its fact sheet exempting agencies from their bargaining agreements.