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A federal judge in Washington state is temporarily blocking the Trump administration from terminating collective bargaining rights for TSA
employees.

Judge Marsha Pechman issued the preliminary injunction on Monday after the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) challenged an order
from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The unions are accusing the Trump administration of engaging in "an
unlawful and unilateral termination of a negotiated union contract that protects approximately 47,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs)," according to the AFGE, which filed the lawsuit in March.

In her order, Pechman said that AFGE's case against the order was
compelling, and referred to the DHS orders as the "Noem Determination."

"AFGE has demonstrated a strong likelihood that the Noem Determination constitutes impermissible retaliation against it for its unwillingness to acquiesce to the Trump Administration�s assault on federal workers," the
judge wrote.

"AFGE has shown the Noem Determination likely violates Due Process, having afforded no notice or process for AFGE and its members to work with DHS
and TSA to resolve any disagreement before simply shredding the
contractual promises of the CBA," she continued.

Pechman added that AFGE has shown that it is "likely to succeed in showing
the Noem Determination is arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, particularly given its complete disregard
for the 2024 CBA and its mischaracterization of AFGE�s role."

The ruling comes three months after FOX Business first learned DHS
intended to end collective bargaining for certain TSA workers in early
March.

In a release obtained exclusively by FOX Business, DHS said TSA had more
people doing "full-time union work" rather than performing screening
functions at 86% of U.S. airports.

At the time, DHS said that current circumstances hindered the TSA�s chief responsibility "to safeguard our transportation systems and keep Americans safe."

The move was criticized by AFGE National President Everett Kelley, who
called the move an "unprovoked attack."

"They gave as a justification a completely fabricated claim about union officials � making clear this action has nothing to do with efficiency,
safety, or homeland security," the labor leader said. "This is merely a
pretext for attacking the rights of regular working Americans across the country because they happen to belong to a union."

Conversation

vilkey51
7 hours ago

TSA works under the execuitive branch of government, Judge is political
and under the constitution has no authority over the execuitive branch.
This TDS, Dems are obstructing the president from duing his duties. John Robers better start duing his duties and stop the Judicial warfare. Even
if Trump ignors what can the judge do, nothing. Political theator must
stop

TWBB416416123
6 hours ago

That's another federal agency, created out of the knee-jerk reaction to
9/11, that needs to go bye bye. The private security operating on 9/11 did nothing wrong.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks- trump-administration-from-ending-tsa-collective-bargaining-rights

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