The American Federation of Government Employees, the National Association of Government Employees and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ― are seeking an injunction to block the administration from moving forward with the buy-out effort for Government employees.  The largest federal government employee union is suing the Trump administration to block its buyouts for workers, calling the offer “an arbitrary, unlawful, short-fused ultimatum which workers may not be able to enforce.”  The suit against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said the agency violated the Administrative Procedures Act in swiftly rolling out an offer that they do not currently have the funds to back and have offered conflicting guidance about how it’s structured.

The lawsuit states:  “The Fork Directive is arbitrary and capricious in numerous respects, including that the Directive: (1) fails to consider possible adverse consequences of the Directive provided to millions of federal employees to the continuing functioning of government; (2) offers conflicting information about employees’ rights and obligations if they accept the government’s offer; (3) runs counter to long-standing rules and requirements for federal employees; (4) is contrary to reasoned practices of government restructuring, (5) ignores history and practices around effective workforce reduction, (6) sets an arbitrarily short deadline; and (7) is pretext for removing and replacing government workers on an ideological basis.”