DOJ lawyers are ramping up their effort to block Trumps plan for radical reform of the DOJ by unionizing.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-civil-rights-lawyers-try-to-unionize-amid-uncertain-future

July 31, 2024, 12:07 PM EDT

DOJ Civil Rights Lawyers Try to Unionize Amid Uncertain Future

Division with lightning rod agenda tries to form DOJ’s first attorney union

Employees seek stable conditions, protections from ‘Schedule F’

Lawyers in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have launched a union organizing campaign with an aggressive timeline to try securing bargaining status ahead of the next presidential administration.

The attempt to form what would be DOJ’s first known union of litigators—parallel to a more advanced effort inside the department’s environmental division—is focused on maintaining “stable” working conditions, such as telework flexibility, in the face of an uncertain future. Employee organizers are also trying to overcome a “widespread misunderstanding” among Civil Rights Division lawyers that they’re ineligible to unionize, according to materials disseminated to staff in late July and obtained by Bloomberg Law.

Organizers don’t name former President Donald Trump in the emails to colleagues, but their agency’s equal justice portfolio, including voting rights and policing investigations, has experienced significant shifts depending on the political party in power. Their bid comes as the Republican presidential nominee has promised to revive his first-term initiative that sought to erode federal civil servant job security and his allies make plans to overhaul DOJ civil rights enforcement including by focusing on anti-white discrimination.

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