Unions demand to stop Trump
A group of unions sued the Administration on Friday in the hope of stopping the attempt of President Donald Trump to destroy collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.
The unions say in their lawsuit That Trump is taking reprisals against them for rejecting the White House attack against the government’s workforce. The groups have presented a series of complaints and complaints that have slowed Trump’s effort to fire employees and obtain federal agencies.
The Trump Executive Order Signed last week It would strip the union rights of a large part of the Federal Work Force, launching contracts to a series of agencies in the name of “National Security”. Trump made clear when he issued the order that the federal unions that face him were angry.
“Certain federal unions have declared the war on the agenda of President Trump”, an administration “Information sheet“Said.
Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government, said in a statement on Friday that his union “is not going anywhere.” The EGE was one of the six unions that filed the lawsuit on behalf of almost a million members representing.
“EGE is not going to be intimidated by a thug who is making a tantrum because our union is surpassing them in the Court of Justice and in the Public Opinion Court,” Kelley said.
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The Trump administration was expected to try to carve certain federal workers outside the Collective Bargation Law, due to the argument they work mainly in intelligence, investigations or national security work, as allowed by law. The proposal was even included in the 2025 project, the conservative transition plan prepared by the Heritage Foundation.
But the order signed that Trump is So sweep that would exclude workers who have little, in any case, to do with national security functions, including nurses, biologists, public rangers and others. Among the more than a dozen agencies listed are the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The unions argue in their demand that the exclusions are too broad and have no basis on reality. They also point out that many civil employees, even in the Department of Defense, “have served their country while they retain collective bargaining protections” for decades so far.
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“[T]His unions to unions to refrain from expressing critical points of view of the Trump administration or publicly support Trump, or face the elimination of their representation and membership rights, ”says the complaint.
Another labor group, the National Treasury employees union, filed a separate lawsuit earlier this week. The union said Friday that he has asked a federal judge to issue a court order that blocks the White House to advance with his plan.
His order Call the Trump order an “illegal attempt to eliminate collective bargaining for about two thirds of the Federal Labor Force.”