The largest union representing U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump's plan to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers and make it easier to fire them.

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Trump's Plan to Ease Firing of Federal Workers Challenged by Union

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -The largest union representing U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump’s plan to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers and make it easier to fire them. The American Federation of Government Employees, in a lawsuit in Washington, D.C. federal court, said Trump lacks the power to strip federal employees of protections against being fired at will without adopting a forma…

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