(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Fatiuma Hussein at the Associated Press reports the U.S. Treasury Department has terminated its Collective Bargaining Agreement with Unionized Workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in an escalation of President Donald Trump ’s push to exert more control over the Federal Workforce. The Union contract for the Bureau of Fiscal Service was also terminated, according to two people familiar with the decision. Workers at the IRS and the Fiscal Service Bureau, which processes payments for the Government, are represented by the National Treasury Employees Union (NETU), which represents 150,000 Employees in 37 Departments and Agencies. The Treasury terminated their agreements using a Trump Executive Order that was signed last March as the authority for the terminations. NETU President Doreen Greenwald said the IRS “cannot unilaterally end” its contract with the Union. The Federal Sector Labor Statute requires the IRS to have a contract "with the exclusive representative of its Bargaining Unit Employees,” she said.

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