In the sixth blogcast of Power At Work’s series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by President Doreen Greenwald of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) to discuss the attack on the rights of federal workers by the Trump administration. Watch now to hear President Greenwald’s response to this attack on dedicated civil servants who run the federal government, along with NTEU's strategies in defending its members. This discussion will cover how this mass firing and buyouts of federal employees by the Trump administration is an attempt to weaken and damage the federal government.
Doreen P. Greenwald is the elected National President of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). She has been a frontline federal employee for 35 years. President Greenwald is the spokesperson for the union representing NTEU with the media, Congress, and agency leadership on issues important to union members and federal employees. She was previously the Special Assistant to the National President and was elected National Executive Vice President in 2022. She spent her federal career at the IRS, where she worked as a revenue officer and served for 14 years as president of NTEU Chapter 1 (IRS Wisconsin).
