Colin Kalmbacher at Law & Crime reports the Union representing NASA Workers has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy in a Washington, D.C. Federal Court over an Executive Order stripping Collective Bargaining Rights from Federal Employees. On August 28th, Trump issued Executive Order 14343, entitled: Further Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Programs. The order, under the auspices of national security, purports to remove six agencies from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute - a Federal Law that has provided Collective Bargaining Rights for most Federal Employees since 1978 In a 26-page complaint, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), which represents 6,000 NASA Workers, claims Trump’s Executive Order - and attempts to implement it - are "ultra vires and unconstitutional under the First and Fifth Amendments." The IFPTE says the order is a prohibited attempt evidencing a "bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group" in line with other documented "efforts to dismantle Federal Unions - specifically those that speak out against the Administration."

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