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Judge: Bush Anti-Worker Order is Unlawful

January 9, 2002

A federal judge has overturned a Bush executive order that required federal contractors to post notices informing employees of their rights to vote against unionization of their workplace.

The order, challenged by the United Auto Workers and the Office and Professional Employees International Union, also required notices to inform workers they do not have to pay the portion of their agency shop fees used for politics. Judge Henry H. Kennedy of the federal district court in Washington, D.C. decided President Bush illegally used his executive order to override federal labor laws.

AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said the executive order was the latest in a "continuing campaign of over-reaching initiatives that have undermined workers rights."

AFL-CIO counsel Jon Hiatt said the federation would not have opposed the order to post the notices if federal contractors were also required to post notices about the many other rights protected by the National Labor Relations Act, including the right not to face retaliation by employers for supporting a union.

The January 2 ruling is the second in recent weeks overturning anti-worker orders issued by President Bush in his first days as president. In December, a federal judge overturned President Bushs executive order banning project labor agreements on construction projects using federal funds.

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