The Justice Department’s environment and civil rights divisions voted to unionize just days before President Donald Trump returned to the White House, according to recent filings with the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
Attorneys in DOJ’s Civil Rights Division voted on Jan. 9 and its Environment and Natural Resources Division on Jan. 10 to select the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) as their exclusive representation, the filings show.
The votes came just before the arrival of the new Trump administration, which has taken aim at the rights of federal workers and has staffed DOJ’s leadership ranks with the president’s personal lawyers.
Those DOJ leaders will be seated at the bargaining table during contract negotiations with the new units.