Judge denies unions' request to block mass firing of probationary employees, buyout offer

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : MORE: Trump administration begins mass layoffs across multiple federal agencies: Sources The National Treasury Employees Union, the unions claimed, stands to lose "as much as half of its dues revenue and around half of the workers that it represents.
50% : MORE: Judge weighing temporary order blocking Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs In his ruling, however, the judge wrote: "NTEU claims that the relief it seeks would be harder to get if it proceeds first before the FLRA, not that it has a right to avoid proceeding before the FLRA at all." "The Court acknowledges that district court review of these sweeping executive actions may be more expedient.
47% : The suit, filed last week, is one of several lawsuits challenging Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency's large-scale effort to slash the federal workforce.
37% : The suit alleged the Trump administration's effort to fire massive numbers of federal employees across multiple agencies, including its recent deferred resignation offer to more than 2 million federal employees, violates Congress' power to establish a federal workforce, as well as federal procedures that dictate how the workforce should be reduced.
31% : The government also claimed that Trump's executive action ordering the reductions is "consistent with applicable law" and dismissed the unions' concerns over their potential loss of revenues and bargaining power as "speculative." Since Trump returned to the White House, Musk has been spearheading efforts to reduce the size of government, slash thousands of federal contracts, cut programs deemed to be wasteful and root out fraud.

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