Justice Department Lawyers to Vote on Union on Eve of Trump (1)

Environmental and civil rights attorneys will vote on whether to form the Justice Department’s first known union of litigators in the final weeks before a second Trump administration that’s threatened to erode their job protections.

Lawyers with DOJ’s Civil Rights and Environment and Natural Resources divisions—handling some of the department’s more politically divisive cases—will both start casting ballots Dec. 12, said a spokeswoman for the National Treasury Employees Union. The civil rights voting period ends Jan. 8 and the ENRD period closes Jan. 9, she added.

The federal sector labor board could certify results before Trump takes office Jan. ...