The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending all contracts with unionized employees, a union president said on Aug. 8.
Justin Chen, president of the EPA’s chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)—the United States’ largest federal union—said in a statement that the union is preparing legal action in response to the contract terminations.
About half of the EPA’s 16,000 employees are members of the union.
The AFGE was formed to strengthen the collective bargaining position of civil servants, and it represents more than 820,000 federal and District of Columbia government workers.
In March, the Trump administration announced a new policy to exclude employees at federal agencies with national security missions from federal labor-management relations programs….
Environmental Protection Agency Terminates Contracts With Unionized Employees
