Trump has just received another blow from a federal judge
The Trump administration faced another legal setback on Monday when a judge temporarily blocked its plan to dissolve labor unions in a federal agency.
The White House moved in March to revoke the collective bargaining rights in the transportation of transport security, with the objective of annulling the union contract for about 47,000 airport security officers. But the American district judge Marsha J. Pechman in Seattle, Washington, granted a court order on Monday at the request of the Union, the American Federation of Government employees.
Pechman, appointed by President Bill Clinton, determined that the union would probably prevail in his argument that the administration came into conflict with the law. She said that Trump’s Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, offered only a “general justification” to strip workers of their union rights, and the measure seemed purely reprisal.
“Noem’s determination seems to have been carried out to punish Cong [on] Federal employment in court, ”he wrote.
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The president of Conge, Everett Kelley, described the order of Pechman “a crucial victory for federal workers.”
“We remain committed to ensuring that the rights and dignity of our members are protected, and we will not defend the rights of our members against the illegal rupture of the Union,” Kelley said in a statement.
The order means that the Trump administration must honor the collective bargaining agreement of the union for now. But the White House could still win the underlying case and succeed that the contract discarded.
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The union’s efforts are a key piece of the broadest plan of President Donald Trump to tithe the Federal Labor Force and end the Long Data Civil Service protections. In addition to trying to kill unions in TSA, Trump has tried to cancel collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of other workers in a series of federal agencies, all in the name of “national security.”
The White House has explicitly said that it is taking such actions at least in part because federal work groups have faced the president. He pointed out in an “informative sheet” about revoking the collective bargaining rights that federal labor groups had “declared the war on the agenda of President Trump,” said a statement Pelchman in his order on Monday.
“The first amendment protects against reprisals for participating in public litigation and criticism of the government,” he wrote.