The Department of Justice sued Thursday night to decertify labor unions representing eight federal agencies. The lawsuit was in response to President Trump’s Executive Order titled Exclusions From Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs. This executive order vastly expanded the number of agencies granted an exception to the right to unionize under Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978; see Fetterman Sulks, Conservatives Cheer As President Trump Takes Sledgehammer to Public Sector Unions – RedState.
The Department of Justice issued a press release declaring: “The plaintiff agencies have collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with the defendants, which are locals, councils, and Division 10 of the American Federation of Government Employees; those CBAs prevent the plaintiffs from implementing workforce policies that would help them further their…
