President Donald Trump’s March 27 Executive Order: “Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs” used an obscure provision of Federal labor laws, which authorizes the president to exclude agencies from union collective bargaining if it is determined that those agencies primary work involves national security. Along with Homeland Security and other obvious national security concerns, Trump included the Department of Treasury as an agency involved in national security interests:
In addition to all agencies with the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, the Department of State and the Department of Veterans Affairs, the order also covers the Treasury Department, all agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the General Services…
