A coalition of unions sued the Trump administration Friday over its directive to companies to terminate their collective bargaining agreements with federal worker unions.
President Trump final week signed an order directing 18 companies to finish the union contracts, citing a provision of the federal civil service regulation that enables such exceptions for nationwide safety companies.
However the unions argue Trump confirmed his hand in a truth sheet accompanying the order that complained about “hostile Federal unions” who had “declared war on President Trump’s agenda” by launching quite a few fits difficult his insurance policies.
“The vast overbreadth of the list of excluded agencies and the incongruity between the stated rationale of national security and those agencies’ primary functions would itself raise questions that the invocation of national security was pretextual,” the go well with states.
“But here there is no need to speculate as to the true rationale behind the Exclusion Order. The White House made clear that it was eliminating federal labor law protections for the vast majority of federal workers in response to constitutionally-protected speech and petitioning activity by Plaintiffs and other federal employee unions in opposition to executive actions by the Trump Administration.”
The go well with consists of quite a lot of claims, together with that the Trump administration violated the First Modification by concentrating on unions because of their actions.
It additionally argues that the transfer violates the Fifth Modification, stripping unions of due course of whereas sidestepping their obligations below already-signed contracts.
The go well with is the second from unions difficult the order. The Nationwide Treasury Workers Union sued earlier this week.
The Trump administration additionally took the bizarre transfer of submitting its personal authorized motion in Texas final week, making the primary transfer in litigation by asking a choose to declare as authorized its plans to terminate the contracts.
That go well with was filed in a single-judge district in Texas, probably setting the stage for a square-off within the Supreme Court docket.
