Immigration Judges Union Survives, For Now

Government Executive: A Federal Labor Relations Authority regional director last week reaffirmed that federal immigration judges are not management officials and therefore can unionize, rejecting an effort by the Justice Department to decertify the National Association of Immigration Judges.

Last year, the Justice Department announced that it would seek to bust the vocal immigration judges union, arguing that circumstances had changed since the FLRA last reviewed—and upheld—the judges’ eligibility to bargain collectively in 2000.

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