AFGE has partnered with other labor unions and allied organizations to form Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network connecting lawyers who can provide free, direct legal support to federal workers who have been fired or current workers who are concerned their workplace rights are being threatened by the Trump administration.
Over 1,000 lawyers have been trained and are ready to provide pro bono counsel to federal workers as Trump and his billionaire buddy Elon Musk intensify their efforts to wreak havoc on our government and democratic institutions.
“AFGE is proud to partner together with allies across the nation to ensure patriotic American civil servants under relentless attack by this administration have access to the legal resources they need,” said AFGE President Everett Kelley.
“Attacks on federal workers are attacks on all workers and on the essential services that our communities rely on daily,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “Getting these workers the justice they deserve in the face of this onslaught will take all of us. This new network is a critical tool empowering federal workers to fight back. When we come together, we are stronger than any of us alone.”
The Legal Defense Network is powered by the AFL-CIO and We The Action with Democracy Forward, AFGE, the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM), National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the American Constitution Society (ACS), the Partnership for Public Service, and others.
Since taking office in January, Trump has fired tens of thousands of federal workers without cause, closed government offices, ended programs created by Congress, ended collective bargaining agreements, busted unions, ignored court orders, destroyed checks and balances, tanked the economy, created a constitutional crisis, and rapidly turned the United States into a totalitarian regime.
AFGE has filed several lawsuits against the administration for its illegal actions against federal workers and our union. AFGE and other labor unions representing a combined 950,000 federal employees filed suit in California against President Trump’s March 27 executive order attempting to illegally remove collective bargaining rights from more than 1 million federal workers on national security grounds. Another one filed in California was against OPM’s directive for mass termination of probationary employees based on fabricated performance issues.
We led a collation of unions in suing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others in the administration for the unlawful and unilateral termination of our negotiated union contract with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) covering about 47,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs). We sued the administration for illegally shutting down Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS).
Click here for a complete list of lawsuits we’ve filed.
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