A federal judge Thursday struggled to accept how a Trump administration plan will streamline the government’s labor relations body by transferring power from its regional directors to a centralized three-person board in Washington.
“You’re taking a caseload that spread across regional directors and putting them on the plate of a three-person national body,” Chief US District Judge Denise L. Casper said during a hearing on dueling requests for judgment in the case.
“I guess I’m not understanding how that streamlines things,” the judge said.
Half a dozen unions in April challenged the Federal Labor Relations Authority’s plan to strip power ...
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