The Trump administration continues to hammer government unions, directing federal agencies to calculate how much they have spent negotiating contracts on behalf of employees.
Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management, directed the heads of federal agencies to provide by April 18 a list of how much they paid employees involved in negotiating collective bargaining agreements and resolving grievances, according to a memorandum dated Monday.
Ezell’s memo also requests the “total compensation paid to agency employees” to “engage in mediation, arbitration, and impasse resolution in connection with collective bargaining disputes,” as well as for “retaining experts to assist in CBA negotiations.”
The information request covers costs in the previous fiscal budget cycle, which ran from Oct. 1, 2023, to Sept. 30, 2024.
