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The Department of Justice Announces Affirmative Litigation Against the American Federation of Government Employees to Protect National Security
Department of Justice ^ | March 28,2025 | Office of Public Affairs--Department of Justice

Posted on 03/29/2025 7:06:02 AM PDT by cgbg

Last night, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Texas on behalf of eight agencies against affiliates of the American Federation of Government Employees.

Yesterday, the President issued an Executive Order entitled Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Relations Programs. This order reflected the President’s determination that several federal agencies and subdivisions perform investigative and national security work and that those agencies may not be required to collectively bargain consistent with our national security.

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 national security missions.

The plaintiff agencies therefore wish to terminate their CBAs. But to avoid unnecessary labor strife and to ensure legal certainty, they filed this declaratory judgment action to confirm that they are legally entitled to do so.

(Excerpt) Read more at justice.gov ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: federal; justice; lawsuit; union
Interesting new tactic by the administration--sue them before they sue you.
1 posted on 03/29/2025 7:06:02 AM PDT by cgbg
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To: cgbg

Notice the venue.

Lol.


2 posted on 03/29/2025 7:06:38 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

Nothing gets done until they get rid of these DEI morons and activist democrat operatives on the bench.
Fire them and get judges who have actually READ the Constitution.


3 posted on 03/29/2025 7:10:07 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: cgbg

TX - good catch.


4 posted on 03/29/2025 7:10:50 AM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: cgbg

LOL! Awesome!


5 posted on 03/29/2025 7:12:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weaponized, bureaucratic "judges" like Boasberg have got to go. They aren't elected to anything.)
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To: cgbg

BTTT


6 posted on 03/29/2025 7:17:04 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: 13Sisters76

Look at the venue!


7 posted on 03/29/2025 7:18:14 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg

“Notice the venue.”

Indeed! It’s not in Washington, DC.


8 posted on 03/29/2025 7:23:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If there is an appeal the next level up will also be in Texas.

In practical terms that means the union is in deep trouble since they would have to go all the way to the Supreme Court to even have a slight hope of a favorable ruling.

Meanwhile there will be lower court rulings banning their unions—which in turn means that all union lawsuits against the administration will have no standing any longer.

This is some serious hardball.

Congrats to the DOJ for getting a little creative and going on offense.


9 posted on 03/29/2025 7:26:19 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: cgbg
Hopefully it gets adjudicated by Judge Roy Bean in his courthouse West of the Pecos, not in Austin.


10 posted on 03/29/2025 7:26:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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To: 13Sisters76

HOW ABOUT JUDGES WHO ARE BORN HERE & ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THE CONSTITUTION & THE WHOLE FRAMEWORK OF THIS COUNTRY.


11 posted on 03/29/2025 7:42:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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“Notice the venue.”

Well played DOJ. Well played.


12 posted on 03/29/2025 8:06:47 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Dude in the sombrero pretty natty


13 posted on 03/29/2025 8:43:33 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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