Immigration judges across the U.S. are attempting to reinstate their union and overturn a federal board’s 2020 ruling to strip them of their bargaining rights, Axios reported.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority first affirmed that federal judges are allowed to form a union, the National Association of Immigration Judges, in 2000. The board overturned that decision in 2020 after concluding that immigration judges are management officials.
The NAIJ president at the time of the 2020 ruling, Judge Ashley Tabaddor, ripped the decision at the time as “nothing more than a desperate attempt by the DOJ to evade transparency and accountability, and undermine the decisional independence of the nation’s 440 Immigration Judges.”
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