Civil rights and environmental lawyers are rushing to certify first-ever union representation at the Justice Department just before another Trump administration that’s promised to erode federal job protections and upend their divisions’ anti-discrimination and pollution reduction missions.
DOJ management has been negotiating in recent weeks with union organizers over which employees at the Civil Rights Division and Environment and Natural Resources Division are eligible under federal sector labor law to vote on selecting the National Treasury Employees Union to represent them, NTEU said. Once those debates are resolved, secret ballot elections overseen by the Federal Labor Relations Authority can be ...