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WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- One of the nation's largest federal employees unions filed suit Thursday against new personnel regulations at the Department of Homeland Security.
The National Treasury Employees Union says the regulations are unlawful and would "strip meaningful collective bargaining and other rights from all of the civilian employees of the Department of Homeland Security."
The legal action, filed in Washington, also contends the regulations "fly in the face of congressional intent expressed in the Homeland Security Act, which established the department," the union said.
The act requires the department's personnel system ensure employees may bargain collectively, the union said. The final regulations do just the opposite, the union said, removing from all DHS employees longstanding statutory rights to bargain collectively and participate, through their elected union representatives, in decisions affecting them.
"The employees losing their basic rights are the same men and women who guard our borders every single day," union President Colleen Kelley said in a statement.
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