Posted on 04/02/2025 6:09:41 PM PDT by ransomnote
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.
“We are taking this fight directly to the public-sector unions,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “By affirmatively suing in Texas, we are aggressively protecting President Trump’s efforts to ensure unions no longer interfere in the national security functions of the government”
Underscoring this threat to national security, this lawsuit argues that “the President and his senior Executive Branch officials cannot afford to be obstructed by CBAs that micromanage oversight of the federal workforce and impede performance accountability.” This lawsuit also argues that the President “cannot effectively execute the laws or promote national security if his supervision of agents engaged in national security, intelligence, counterintelligence, or investigative missions is stymied by intrusive bargaining agreements and continuous bargaining obligations.”
Updated March 31, 2025
The American Federation of Government Employees.
Now that sounds like a fun bunch.
The kind of people who can liven up a party simply by leaving.
AFGE has very diverse political views—some Stalinists, some Maoists, some Trotskyites, some classic Marxists and some neo-Marxists—with 666 genders to match.
Lol.
Ha.
Pardon me for not noticing their diversity. I’m ashamed.
Is this OUR team doing forum shopping? Good stuff!
I never understood unions for federal employees. I remember when DoD employees were not allowed to be in AFGE. It hampered readiness and deployablility.
Doesn’t the infamous Pam Bondi run the DOJ.
Came here to say that.
Step One of running these scallywags completely out of the government. Buy!
In the AFGE you will not find American patriots for this country, but they are saving democracy don’t ya know
I’ve dealt with those idiot’s when I was trying to fire useless federal employees. You have to counsel, document, recounsel, document for months and then try to find other work for these idiots rather than just fire them. I did get rid of a couple but it was far easier to make their lives miserable so they’d quit rather than just fire them.
In order to understand, just follow the money.
Wonder if Janus v. AFSCME figures into this...
Public sector unions ultimately organize against We the People. Sounds unconstitutional to moi.
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