The largest federal employee union sues Trump administration over time restrictions on union...
Source: The Washington Post
The largest federal employee union sues Trump administration over time restrictions on union activity
By Washington Post Staff
May 31 at 12:43 PM
The American Federation of Government Employees on Thursday took the Trump administration to court to block a new executive order that severely restricts the time employees can spend on union activity, claiming it violates the First Amendment guarantee of the right to freedom of association and oversteps the presidents constitutional authority.
The restriction on what is known as official time which will ultimately have to be bargained through collective bargaining contracts at federal agencies was one of three orders the president signed late Friday before the Memorial Day weekend to roll back long-held civil service protections for federal employees.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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The Mouth
(3,150 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)The Mouth
(3,150 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)I think it's time to donate some money to them to fight the orange hair asshole and Elaine Cho, that nepotism cretin married to the Kentucky turtle..........................Like she didn't do enough damage when she was with the Bush team......................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
elleng
(130,895 posts)and had done so closer to retirement.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)basic rights, that men and woman have died for...................they really are deplorable
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
not fooled
(5,801 posts)are an endangered species under dump. his masters the kook brothers and mercer-naries of course want to dismantle most of OUR Government that protects our water and air and keeps this nation running.
Decades of demonization have made Federal workers easy targets, too.
donnie wants to eviscerate the Federal workforce and keep only those who will swear loyalty. If he stays in power long enough, there will be purges of anyone found to have expressed a contrary opinion, off work.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)on destroying the govt (thanks Bannon and Mercers and Kochs) and he has successfully achieved this. There is no state dept, there are no ambassadors, there is no science research, there is no shared public climate change info, etc. He has screwed us 1,001 ways and the different govt agencies along with our former allies have been well aware of it. The average American doesn't care. SICK!
not fooled
(5,801 posts)You put your finger on the principal problem: most Americans don't care. The pukes have done a great job of hiding the reasons people's lives keep getting shittier + displacing the blame onto e.g. immigrants. Acquaintances of mine literally have no clue about the policies pukes have forced on the nation and don't recognize those policies as tied to what goes on in their lives.
For this country to work the founders recognized that an informed populace was essential. We have the opposite with heavily propagandized ignoramuses who however have opinions and vote. I have run into many of this type while living recently in AZ--catastrophically ignorant white racists, smug and arrogant, certain that "the Mexicans" and "the blacks" are to blame for their woes and that dump is their savior.
The problem for the pukes is that now that they have looted the treasury with the tax scam, and already cut assistance to the poor, to feed the insatiable appetite of their donors they are going to have to go after things like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that impact the middle class, white dump voter. That's the last big tranche of money for them to go after and perhaps now people will wake up.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)You have a more hopeful outlook than I do. I am a realist. That is my cross to bear.