Union Sues to Block Trump From Ending Collective Bargaining for Many Federal Workers
Source: US News and World Report/Reuters
March 31, 2025, at 12:22 p.m.
(Reuters) -A union that represents 150,000 U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to collectively bargain with government agencies through their unions.
The National Treasury Employees Union said in the lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C. federal court that Trump's executive order last week exempting more than a dozen agencies from collective bargaining obligations violates federal workers' labor rights and the U.S. Constitution and threatens the union's very existence.
The NTEU said the order applies to more than 100,000 of its 158,000 members and would require agencies to stop deducting union dues from those workers' paychecks, a major blow to the union's revenue and bargaining power. "The strength and influence of any union correlate directly with the size of its membership," the NTEU said.
The NTEU said Trump issued the order to punish unions that have challenged many of his efforts to purge the federal workforce. The union has filed lawsuits over the mass firings of recently-hired federal employees, the shuttering of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and an attempt to make it easier to fire workers in policy-related jobs. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Link to NTEU NEWS RELEASE - NTEU Sues to Protect Union Rights for Federal Workers
Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://www.nteu.org/-/media/Files/nteu/docs/public/2025/7103%20Mass%20Exclusion%20Complaint%20-%20filed.pdf