A federal workers’ union filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education on Friday for changing the Department’s employees’ automated emails to include partisan language about the government shutdown.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which is represented by the Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group, sent a cease-and-desist letter and filed a lawsuit against the DOE over the political language included in its emails.
“Federal employees already are suffering financially by going without a salary due to this politically motivated government shutdown,” AFGE National President Everett Kelley said in a statement.
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Kelley said that the administration violated the First Amendment rights of furloughed Department of Energy employees at DOE by replacing their out-of-office
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