Unions sued President Trump’s crew over a firing frenzy. 

They call it “massive employment fraud.”

They’re yelling about misused rules.

But Trump’s team says it’s simply fat-trimming time.

Trying to hold on to the money, the Unions say it’s a sham as they draw up the lawsuits.

Too bad they lost!

The Hill reports:

A coalition of government employee unions sued late Wednesday over the Trump administration’s efforts to fire employees still in their probationary period across the federal government.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has directed agencies to terminate the employees, who can be more easily removed as they remain on probation anywhere from one year to two years after being hired, depending on their agency.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, claims OPM is usurping congressional authority. It adds to more than 80 lawsuits challenging major Trump administration actions since his inauguration one month ago.

The union has sued to try to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive systems at various federal agencies.

But the new lawsuit is the first to directly focus on the administration’s efforts to cut probationary employees, claiming tens of thousands have already been terminated.

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Too bad for them, they lose!

President Trump wins again!

These people suing Trump are kicking against the goads. Haven’t they figured that out yet?

The Guardian reports:

The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce.

The ruling by the US district judge Christopher Cooper in Washington DC federal court is temporary while the litigation plays out. But it is a win for the Trump administration as it seeks to purge the federal workforce and slash what it deems wasteful and fraudulent government spending.

The National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and four other unions sued last week to block the administration from firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and granting buyouts to employees who quit voluntarily.

The unions are seeking to block eight agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Veterans Affairs from implementing mass layoffs.

In his 16-page order, Cooper started by acknowledging Trump’s “onslaught of executive actions that have caused, some say by design, disruption and even chaos in widespread quarters of American society”.

He went on to add: “Affected citizens and their advocates have challenged many of these actions on an emergency basis in this Court and others across the country.”

However, Cooper on Thursday said, he likely lacks the power to hear the case, and the unions instead must file complaints with a federal labor board that hears disputes between unions and federal agencies.

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Cooper wrote: “NTEU fails to establish that it is likely to succeed on the merits because this Court likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the claims it asserts. The Court will therefore deny the unions’ motion for a temporary restraining order and, for the same reasons, deny their request for a preliminary injunction.”

Termination emails were sent last week to workers across the federal government – mostly recently hired employees still on probation at agencies such as the Department of Education, the Small Business Administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the General Services Administration and others.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
 

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