[glm]

IIRC, one of Obama's Executive Orders covers the forum set up for the Unions and Government to meet and specifically required that the minutes of such are beyond the reach of the FOIA.

Are they beyond the reach of Congress?

[RoosterRedux]

I don't know how they could be. That said, here is a quote from HotAir...

In short, as noted in 2011, Executive Order 13522 establishes “labor-management forums” between union bosses (who may or may not be federal employees) and federal agency management.

As part of the directives under Executive Order 13522, agency heads are to engage union bosses in “pre-decisional discussions” before decisions are made–and those discussions are to be in secret and outside the purview of the Freedom of Information Act…