NASA workers union sues Trump over 'unlawful' and 'chilling' effort to strip collective bargaining rights
Source: Law & Crime
Oct 10th, 2025, 1:20 pm
A labor union representing NASA workers filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy this week in a Washington, D.C., federal court over an executive order stripping collective bargaining rights from federal employees.
On Aug. 28, the 45th and 47th president 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, representing some 6,000 NASA workers, claims the executive order — and attempts to implement it — are "ultra vires and unconstitutional under the First and Fifth Amendments."
The IFPTE says the latest executive 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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Full headline: 'Retaliation for protected First Amendment activity': NASA workers union sues Trump over 'unlawful' and 'chilling' effort to strip collective bargaining rights
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26184629-nasa-workers-v-trump/
Link to COMPLAINT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26184629/nasa-workers-v-trump.pdf