Civil rights and environmental lawyers are rushing to certify first-ever union representation at the Justice Department just before another Trump administration that’s promised to erode federal job protections and upend their divisions’ anti-discrimination and pollution reduction missions.
DOJ management has been negotiating in recent weeks with union organizers over which employees at the Civil Rights Division and Environment and Natural Resources Division are eligible under federal sector labor law to vote on selecting the National Treasury Employees Union to represent them, NTEU said. Once those debates are resolved, secret ballot elections overseen by the Federal Labor Relations Authority can be scheduled, impacting up to hundreds of DOJ lawyers.
The union has filed petitions for the two elections by submitting signatures of support from at least half of the proposed bargaining units. But as the disputes over trial attorneys’ labor rights continue, the union campaigns are about to stretch into a new administration determined to eliminate what Trump has characterized as disloyal civil servants.
It was Trump’s pledge as a candidate to revive his 2020 “Schedule F” executive order to fire “rogue bureaucrats” that helped mobilize the DOJ lawyers over the past year, among other reasons.
Trump’s arrival Jan. 20 may put added pressure on union organizers to hold elections—...
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