The Department of Veterans Affairs is terminating collective bargaining agreements with several key government unions representing its employees.

The move runs against the Trump administration’s claims to federal jurists that agencies would wait until the conclusion of litigation challenging the president’s executive order seeking to outlaw collective bargaining at most federal agencies on national security grounds.

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it is terminating collective bargaining agreements for most of its unionized employees. This is the first of what is expected to be many union contract terminations across the federal government,