President Donald Trump is on the rampage against unions yet again.
“President Donald Trump has called on the D.C. Circuit to immediately green-light enforcement of three executive orders challenged by labor unions and deemed unlawful by a federal judge last year.
His motion filed Tuesday night comes one week after the federal appeals court overturned the lower court ruling striking down provisions in the orders that tighten regulations on labor negotiations in government workplaces.
Trump is now asking the D.C. Circuit to expedite its ruling on the “erroneous injunction” put in place last year by U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who sided with the American Federation of Government Employees, or AFL-CIO, collectively representing the unions
The three-judge panel chose not to immediately lift the ban, allowing unions 45 days to request a reconsideration of their claims. But Tuesday’s filing contends the block continues to handicap government officials across agencies who are in ongoing collective bargaining with unions . . .
The AFL-CIO filed the lawsuit less than a week after Trump issued the orders in May 2018, claiming they violated labor union members’ ability to negotiate grievances on behalf of individual employees or a group of employees.
The orders limit the topics to be taken up and set time restrictions on negotiations, curbing the ‘official time’ during which employees are supposed to be paid for carrying out union-related duties . . .
But the D.C. Circuit ruled last week that Judge Brown Jackson lacked jurisdiction on the matter, and sent the case to the Federal Labor Relations Authority for review.
Justice Department attorneys argued in Tuesday motion’s that the FLRA board — made up of three Trump appointees tasked with adjudicating federal labor disputes — is the only appropriate forum for unions to present grievances.”
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