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PEERMail | We’re suing the Trump administration – again

by PEER | March 5, 2026
PEER and a coalition of unions filed a consolidated and updated legal challenge to the Trump-Vance administration’s effort to unlawfully convert potentially tens of thousands of merit-based, nonpartisan civil servants to at-will employees ...

Unions sue over Trump’s efforts to nix federal worker job protections

by PEER | March 4, 2026
The lawsuit was originally filed last year by nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group for government whistleblowers, to challenge Trump’s order. The case was stayed pending OPM’s rulemaking. Four unions joined PEER in the amended complaint ...

Lawsuit contends Schedule Policy/Career exceeds presidential authority

by PEER |
The revised lawsuit expands on previous legal actions from the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, along with the American Federation of Government Employees, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the American Federation of Labor and ...

Groups sue to block Trump’s fed-firing rule

by PEER |
Unions and a watchdog organization are re-upping their legal challenge to stop President Donald Trump’s push to strip civil service protections from thousands of federal employees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility; the American Federation of Government Employees; the ...