Federal Government Policy and Business

Administration and unions battle in court over executive orders

Federal Times: Lawyers representing federal labor unions accused the Trump administration of trying to “weaponize” executive power and “destroy” collective bargaining during a July 25 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia hearing. Meanwhile, a Department of Justice legal team dismissed the claims as “easily dispatched” and described the acts as well within constitutional limits.

The hearing came after public sector unions sued over three executive orders issued in May under the auspices of improving government efficiency but seen by many to be anti-union. Unions claimed the effort to reform the use of official time, or time spent during the workday by federal employees on union duties and activities such as filing grievances, was “to shut down labor organizations.”

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