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PDJT w/DOJ appealed to DC Circuit Court re: gov't employees' union to streamline negotiations and to handle disputes w/in FLRB vs court system.

AFL-CIO filed suit against 3 EOs in 2018. DC Circuit has already ruled District Court has no jurisdiction.

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Federal government public unions employment dispute and negotiations resolution process lawsuit update. AFL-CIO vs PDJT

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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.

The three-judge panel chose not to immediately lift the ban, allowing unions 45 days to request a reconsideration of their claims...Tuesday’s filing contends the block continues to handicap government officials across agencies who are in ongoing collective bargaining with unions.

“The government respectfully requests that the court immediately issue the mandate, so that the president’s subordinates may implement the executive orders’ lawful goals and directives,” the motion states.

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.

“Without any valid justification, it singles out labor organizations and their representatives for disparate, negative treatment as compared to individuals,” the AFL-CIO lawsuit states.

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.

A D.C. Circuit order mandating the removal of the injunction will free government negotiators to implement Trump’s executive orders, “which may generate the kind of ‘concrete bargaining disputes’ ....

with union negotiators that will enable plaintiffs to present their claims to the Federal Labor Relations Authority,” according to the motion.