Judge halts DHS attempt to terminate TSA workers’ union rights in AFGE lawsuit

A federal judge in Washington state temporarily prevents the Trump administration from ending the collective negotiation rights of TSA employees.

Judge Marsha Bishman issued a preliminary order on Monday after the US Federation of government Employees (AFG) challenged an order from the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS).

The Tramp administration is accused of participating in “an illegal termination and a unit for the contract of negotiations federation that protects nearly 47,000 transport security security staff (TSOS),” according to AFGE, who filed the lawsuit in March.

In its arrangement, Pechman said that the AFGE case against the matter was convincing, and referred to DHS orders as “NOM Determination”.

DHS finishes the collective negotiation of TSA transport security officers

The judge wrote: “AFGE has shown a strong possibility that the design of Noem is an unacceptable revenge against it because he did not want to eliminate the Trump administration’s attack on federal workers,” the judge wrote.

“AFGE has shown that Noem’s decision is likely to violate the due legal procedures, as there was no notice or operation for AFGE and its members to work with DHS and TSA to resolve any dispute before the CBA contractual promises were torn,” she continued.

Pechman added that AFGE showed that “it is likely to succeed in showing an arbitrary and volatile Noem design in violating the Administrative Procedures law, especially given its complete ignorance of CBA 2024 and the poor payment of its role for AFGE.”

This ruling comes three months after Fox Business learned for the first time that DHS aims to end the collective negotiation of some TSA workers in early March.

The judge temporarily obscures Trump’s order to end the collective negotiation rights of most federal workers

Transport Security Administration (TSA) at Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, on Monday, October 2, 2023. (Elijah Nouvelge / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

In a version obtained exclusively by Fox Business, DHS said that TSA had more people who were “full -time union” instead of performing examination functions at 86 % of American airports.

At the time, the National Security Ministry said that the current conditions hindered the main responsibility of TSA “to protect our transportation systems and maintain the safety of Americans.”

This step was criticized by national president Afferett Kelley, who described this step as an “unjustified attack.”

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Judge Marsha Beckman issued a preliminary order after he stabbed the American Union of Government Employees on the Upperimnight Ministry of Internal Security. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / Getty Images)

“They have given a justified justification for union officials – which shows this procedure that has nothing to do with efficiency, safety or internal security,” said Labor leader. “This is just an excuse to attack the rights of ordinary working Americans across the country because they belong to a union.”

Bradford Betz Business Fox contributed to this report.