August 18, 2025
Four unions representing federal workers challenged the Trump administration's request to end an amended lawsuit fighting the efforts to downsize the federal workforce, telling a D.C. federal judge that the government is trying to send claims to administrative agencies that are nonfunctional.
May 19, 2025
The Trump administration urged a federal judge in D.C. to toss a lawsuit challenging three federal downsizing initiatives, arguing that the claims brought by labor unions representing federal employees belong before the agency charged with adjudicating such disputes.
February 20, 2025
A D.C. federal judge denied requests Thursday to block the president from carrying out three federal downsizing initiatives, rejecting unions' argument that their challenge is an exception to the rule that federal union disputes belong before the agency charged with adjudicating them.
February 18, 2025
A Washington, D.C., federal judge appeared concerned Tuesday with the havoc the president's downsizing initiatives may wreak on agencies and federal-sector unions but uncertain that those unions can ask the courts to step in.
February 13, 2025
A second group of unions representing federal workers has challenged the Trump administration's attempt to shrink the federal workforce through layoffs and a resignation incentive program, telling a D.C. federal judge that the executive branch's actions violate separation-of-powers principles because Congress largely controls federal agencies.