The National Treasury Employees Union has announced it
is seeking summary judgment against the Internal
Revenue Service to stop it from contracting out mailroom
positions without competing them, saying it is illegal
to not do so.
Just 50 positions are in question, but if NTEU won its
motion for summary judgment, IRS would have to stop its
reduction in force, which the union said it has been
trying to achieve since May when it initiated the suit
on the grounds that IRS is in violation of the fiscal
2004 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
It argues that the mailroom’s work is covered by the act
prohibiting the use of appropriated funds to convert work
performed by more than 10 employees without a competition,
because the work started to be converted only after the
act was signed into law on Jan. 23, 2004.
