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This afternoon, a California judge added NTEU to the plaintiffs covered by her previously issued temporary restraining order.
This means that the original Oct. 15 ruling blocking the government from conducting a reduction-in-force during the government shutdown will now apply to NTEU and nine other unions.
The unions have also requested a preliminary injunction against the Shutdown RIFs, which is a longer ban that would extend past the Oct. 29 expiration of the temporary restraining order.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California has scheduled a hearing on the case for Oct. 28. We will update you as soon as we have additional information regarding that preliminary injunction.
This multi-union lawsuit is one of several legal battles NTEU has ongoing to protect federal employees from layoffs, removals, loss of union rights, harmful job reclassifications and agency dismantling.
For more detailed information on these and other cases, see On the Docket.