A federal judge on Wednesday rejected an effort to block the Trump administration from buying out the contracts of tens of thousands of federal workers, saying that the public sector unions that sued lacked standing.
U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr. declined to block the Office of Personnel Management’s “Fork in the Road” program, which gave two million federal workers the opportunity to quit and be paid through September. Due to his ruling, the window to accept the offer closed Wednesday at 7:20 p.m. ET after at least 75,000 workers took the deal.
The American Federation of Government Employees and several other unions challenged the program, arguing that the offer violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
“The plaintiffs are unable to succeed on the merits of their two APA claims because they lack Article III standing and because this Court does not have…
