'It’s in a lot of labor contracts': Trump's plans for gov't workers headed for brick wall

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to fire thousands of federal workers unless they return to their office spaces will be met with fierce resistance from employees – and their union contracts, according to a Washington Post report. “Trump’s expected return-to-office mandate faces furious resistance from federal employees, many of whom are covered by union agreements that guarantee work-from-home policies — including some contracts extended in recent weeks by outgoing Biden officials eager to blunt Trump’s impact on the workforce,” Rein wrote in the WaPo report. “It’s in a lot of labor contracts,” Cathie McQuiston, deputy general counsel at the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union representing federal workers, told the publication of the telework arrangements. “According to the report issued by the OMB in August, departments including the U.S. Agency for International Development, Justice, Veterans Affairs, Treasury, the Internal Revenue Service and the Environmental Protection Agency have reduced their real estate footprints since the pandemic emergency ended — and plan to shed still more square footage, with officials citing low employee occupancy as a prime factor,” according to the Post.