Elliot Spagat, Associated Press, Mar. 4, 2024 "A 53-year-old union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak publicly to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged...
Erich Wagner, Government Executive, Sept. 9, 2022 "A technically defunct union representing federal immigration judges accused the then-Republican majority of the Federal Labor Relations Authority of having planned to decertify the union before considering...
Erich Wagner, Government Executive, Sept. 1, 2021 "Officials at a union representing the nation’s corps of immigration judges said Wednesday that they are baffled by the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s recent legal actions, in which the office...
Letter, June 7, 2021 - Department of Justice Should Support the National Association of Immigration Judges and Withdraw the Petition to Decertify its Union "We, the undersigned unions, organizations, immigration law professors and scholars, and other immigration...
Jeffrey S. Chase, Nov. 6, 2020 "Our attention is understandably focused elsewhere right now. However, it must be mentioned that on the eve of Election Day, a panel decision of the Federal Labor Relations Authority decertified the National Association of...
NAIJ, Aug. 12, 2019 "Trump Administration Seeks to Silence Federal Immigration Judges’ Union DOJ Files Legal Documents to End the Labor Rights of Judges Retribution for Speaking Out and Exposing Problems in the Courts Judges Make Bipartisan Appeal...
The union's Jan. 25, 2022 press release is here . An interview with NAIJ President Mimi Tsankov is here .
Erich Wagner, GovExec, Jan. 24, 2022 "The Republican majority on the Federal Labor Relations Authority last week issued an “unprecedented” decision to move forward with busting a union of immigration judges, despite the fact that both the union and management...
As many of you know, DOJ is attempting to decertify the Immigration Judges' union, on the theory that IJs are management. This argument failed twenty years ago, but DOJ is at it again. The case is currently pending before the Federal Labor Relations Authority...
Judge Amiena Khan and Judge Dorothy Harbeck, The Federal Lawyer, March/April 2020 "In August 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ), in a veiled attempt to silence the voice of the immigration judges (IJs), filed a petition with the Federal Labor Relations...