The nation’s second largest federal union launched a legal counterattack to President Donald Trump’s executive order rolling back collective bargaining in the federal sector.
The National Treasury Employees Union sued the Trump administration Monday, arguing that Trump exceeded his authority and violated the law with his order claiming many agencies are excluded from labor law obligations because of national security concerns.
“The law plainly gives federal employees the right to bargain collectively and the shocking executive order abolishing that right for most of them, under the guise of national security, is an attempt to silence the voices of our nation’s ...