Immigration choose union asks Dem-led agency to restore union position

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(Reuters) – The union symbolizing U.S. immigration judges has requested a federal labor board to reverse its Trump-era ruling that decertified the union, banking on guidance from the board’s new Democratic bulk.

The Countrywide Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) filed a petition with the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) on Thursday saying its 2020 ruling barring the union from bargaining on behalf of immigration judges was incorrect.

The FLRA, which at the time experienced a 2-1 Republican bulk, claimed the about 550 immigration judges utilized by the U.S. Section of Justice are management employees who are not able to unionize. The FLRA did not concern a formal order decertifying the union until eventually April.

Mimi Tsankov, a New York-dependent immigration judge and president of the NAIJ, claimed in a statement that the union expects the FLRA to accept the petition and program an election, and that a vast majority of judges will forged votes in assistance. She also referred to as on DOJ to voluntarily realize the union.

DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The U.S. Senate in May perhaps verified longtime union lawyer Susan Tsui Grundmann to a emptiness on the FLRA, handing Democrats a bulk.

And the NAIJ, which has represented immigration judges given that 1979, is unlikely to experience pushback from the Biden administration. Very last year, DOJ withdrew its opposition to the union’s motion for reconsideration of the FLRA ruling.

The NAIJ has taken care of that immigration judges are rank-and-file employees, and not managers, for the reason that they do not instantly supervise immigration court staff and they just use immigration legislation and do not make new policies.

The FLRA in 2020 experienced stated that simply because most immigration court rulings are not reviewed by the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals, judges have important policy-earning powers.

The final decision experienced at minimum a person upside for the NAIJ. Previous thirty day period, a U.S. appeals court docket reported the union could pursue its challenge to a Trump-period coverage barring judges from speaking publicly about immigration policy in court instead than in advance of the FLRA, since it was no longer identified as a bargaining agent.

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