Environmental Protection Agency Terminates Contracts With Unionized Employees

A court challenge brought by unions against the presidential directive was stayed on Aug. 1, allowing the EPA to move forward.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington on June 10, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ending all contracts with unionized employees, a union president said on Friday.

Justin Chen, president of the EPA’s chapter of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)—America’s largest federal union—said in a statement that the union is preparing legal action in response to the contract terminations.