A coalition of organizations, including unions like the AFL-CIO and nonprofits like the nonpartisan legal volunteering network We the Action, has teamed up to connect the thousands of federal employees fired under the Trump Administration with free legal support, calling on lawyers across the U.S. to join their efforts.
The coalition is encouraging lawyers to sign up for the effort called Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network to help the workers who lost their jobs amid President Donald Trump's quest to shrink the federal government. They launched the network Wednesday and are prepared to offer free training to attorneys without backgrounds in federal labor or employment law.
"The network has built out resources for lawyers to make it easy for them to participate in this," said Anna Chu, executive director of We the Action, to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
The initiative includes organizations like Democracy Forward, which has been a part of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's actions, and legal advocacy networks like the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the American Constitution Society.
It also includes several unions, such as the American Federation of Government Employees, the National Federation of Federal Employees and the National Treasury Employees Union.
"About February or so, the AFL-CIO pulled together a large table of organizations who had been thinking about this issue," Chu said. "That's how we got invited to the...
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