IRS employee union gets new leader

The National Treasury Employees Union, whose members include Internal Revenue Service agents and revenue officers, elected Doreen Greenwald, a longtime federal employee and local union leader as the next national president.

Greenwald, 57, will replace outgoing NTEU national president Tony Reardon, who is retiring. She has been national executive vice president of the NTEU since 2021 and was unopposed in the election for national president. The move comes at a time when the IRS is undergoing major changes thanks to an infusion of extra funding from last year’s Inflation Reduction Act and with a new IRS commissioner, Daniel Werfel, who recently took the helm of the agency.

“I know firsthand the challenges NTEU members face every day, the benefit of NTEU in the workplace and the fight it will take to ensure our union remains strong and our members are treated with the dignity and respect they have earned and deserve,” Greenwald said in a statement Tuesday.   

Greenwald worked for the IRS in her home state of Wisconsin, including 21 years as a revenue officer. She joined the union in 1985 and rose through the ranks of her local chapter to become president, a post she held for 14 years. She has a great deal of experience negotiating national collective bargaining agreements between the union and the IRS, recruiting new members and representing IRS employees across Wisconsin. 

After retiring from the IRS, she moved to Washington in 2020 to join the union’s staff as special assistant to the national president, where she led the union’s COVID-19 response team and worked with chapter leaders from different federal agencies.  

Delegates to the NTEU’s national convention in Detroit also elected Customs and Border Protection officer Anand Muni as national executive vice president on Tuesday. Muni, 44, has been a member of the union since 2009 and is now in his third term as president of the Oakland/San Francisco chapter. Both Greenwald and Muni will be sworn into office on Aug. 10 and were elected to four-year terms. The NTEU represents employees in 34 federal agencies and offices, not just the IRS, Treasury and CBP.

 “Anand and I share a vision for NTEU that recognizes our members in all 34 agencies and will ensure they have formidable representation in the workplace, in the courts, at the bargaining table and on Capitol Hill,” Greenwald said in a statement. “All of their voices will be heard.”