{"id":22647,"date":"2019-09-06T19:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/06\/union-takes-on-trump-executive-orders-through-an-agency-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:56:54","slug":"union-takes-on-trump-executive-orders-through-an-agency-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2019\/09\/06\/union-takes-on-trump-executive-orders-through-an-agency-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Union takes on Trump executive orders through an agency lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2018\/05\/25\/trump-targets-feds-in-latest-series-of-executive-orders\/\" target=_blank>three executive orders<\/a> targeting federal employee unions and employee management received another legal attack Sept. 4, this time fighting against a specific agency\u2019s implementation of the orders in its collective bargaining negotiations with unions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American Federation of Government Employees Council 220 \u2014 which represents Social Security Administration employees in and around New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico \u2014 filed a case with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, asking for the courts to overturn a collective bargaining agreement that was imposed by the Federal Service Impasses Panel in May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe main argument of the lawsuit is that the FSIP went so far beyond its authority that comes from the statute \u2014 the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. The spirit and the intent of that law was to have unions to work in concert with various agencies in order to promote an effective and efficient federal workforce,\u201d said Edwin Orsorio, president for AFGE Local 3369, in an interview with Federal Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe that FSIP exceeded that by a wide margin and they did it solely because they believed they had implicit direction form the White House due to the executive orders from a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/congress\/2019\/07\/30\/senate-democrats-chastise-social-security-for-union-treatment\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-637902194-Cropped.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Senate Democrats chastise Social Security for union treatment<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Negotiations between the Social Security Administration and the Association of Administrative Law Judges reached an impasse in early July and have now caught congressional attention.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A District Court judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2018\/08\/26\/judge-rules-trump-overstepped-with-union-executive-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\">placed an injunction<\/a> on Trump\u2019s executive orders, which target things like official time and employee performance, in August 2018, but a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2019\/07\/16\/appeals-court-reverses-ruling-on-trumps-union-executive-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\">overturned that lower court decision<\/a> based on judicial authority rather than the merits of the arguments in July 2019. The injunction, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2019\/08\/14\/block-on-trumps-union-targeting-orders-to-remain-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">remains in place<\/a>, while the court decides on whether to rehear the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the AFGE local court filings, SSA included strict components of the executive orders in their collective bargaining proposal with the employee union, then bargained in \u201cbad faith\u201d by refusing to negotiate such provisions. A FSIP panel then imposed many of the restrictions contained in the proposal on SSA employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lawsuit opposes not just the FSIP ruling itself, according to Orsorio, but also the nature of the executive orders as violations of civil service law, because FSIP acted with the interests of the administration rather than employees in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t believe that there\u2019s any separation between the two; they\u2019re not two separate issues,\u201d said Orsorio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Union leaders take issue with a number of the components of the bargaining agreement, including the reduction of nationwide official time hours from 250,000 to 50,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are currently 115 labor management relations employees on the agency side. That is over 250,000 man hours,\u201d said Angela Digeronimo, president for AFGE Local 2369 and regional vice president for Council 220 New York Region, in an interview with federal times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[FSIP] themselves said that the agency did not really show why they needed to drop down to the amount of hours that they dropped down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reduction not only means that union representatives cannot put in the same number of hours as the labor relation employees sitting across the table from them, but it also threatens their ability to meet \u201cfair representation\u201d requirements in federal law, which mandate that a union must help employees file grievances and conduct proceedings or lose their standing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But according to Orsorio, the local filing differs from the larger executive order case brought by AFGE and other unions like the National Treasury Employee Union, by contesting parts of the orders that impact employees and not union officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRegardless of what happens to the locals \u2014 as far as their official time goes, office space, use of emails, all of that \u2014 that\u2019s all secondary to the effect that the executive orders and then the FSIP decision afterwards is going to have on the employees,\u201d said Osorio, who previously wrote a letter to lawmakers explaining how employee review processes imposed by the agreement would place an additional burden on and demoralize employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2018\/07\/23\/ssa-violates-discipline-rules-after-employee-protests-union-crackdown\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Pelletier-window-tag2.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">A fed\u2019s protest leads to discipline rule violations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">U.S. Code limits the time an agency employee can be placed on administrative leave, but the Social Security Administration has exceeded it for an employee following a nondestructive act protesting union crackdowns.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The local lawsuit will also be vulnerable to the same legal authority arguments as the currently ongoing national lawsuit, as the union bypassed appeal to the Federal Labor Relations Authority to take it to court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Orsorio, the bypass was done because the FLRA lacks a general counsel to be able to make such decisions, and the case is of such great importance that it must be decided by the courts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf you tether the FSIP decision to the executive order, how can anybody from the FSIP, or the FLRA, overrule their boss, who is the president of the United States?\u201d said Orsorio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers have attempted to pass provisions that would prevent agencies from unilaterally enforcing labor relations contracts as SSA has done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of 217 members of Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/raskin.house.gov\/sites\/raskin.house.gov\/files\/2019-9-5%20FINAL%20Letter%20to%20Leadership%20re%20Collective%20Bargaining%20Rights%20for%20Federal%20Workers.pdf\" 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