Federal Layoff Risk Shifts to Monday as Unions Go to Court
A "Park Closed" at the entrance to Muir Woods National Monument in Mill Valley, California.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergUnions representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers asked a US judge to immediately block any mass firings by the Trump administration during the government shutdown while they press a legal challenge.
The emergency request Saturday night to US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco follows what the unions contend are a series of statements from President Donald Trump and other senior officials signaling that agencies could take action on layoff plans as early as Monday.