Perspective: Trump busted an immigration judges union. His holdovers are blocking it again.
that said, “It is the policy of my Administration to encourage worker organizing and collective bargaining.”That policy would be easier to implement within the government if Biden had another Democratic nominee on the FLRA. He moved a step closer to that Wednesday when Susan T. Grundmann’s nomination was advanced by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Had Grunddmann been in office last month, it is likely that the authority would have reconsidered and perhaps reversed its order to decertify the judges union. Although that decision was never fully implemented as the appeal process unfolded, Tsankov said the decision did limit the union’s ability to represent its members in discussions with management, including grievance procedures.
From the day of the initial decision to decertify in November 2020, “the agency failed to recognize us. It didn’t engage in any of the liaison activities that they are supposed to engage in from a collective bargaining standpoint. And that continued even after the Biden administration came into office,” Tsankov said in an interview.
The union’s role “is important not just for the people appearing before immigration courts and their attorneys but also for the public to have insight and transparency into the courts,” said Greg Chen, the senior director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The lawyers association supported the judges association in a call for immigration courts to be independent of the Justice Department. Immigration judges are department employees, without the insulating protections of criminal and civil court judges. That places the department in the conflicted position of being both prosecutor and judge in immigration cases.by Rep. Zoe Lofgren would transform the immigration courts into an independent judiciary.
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