Five Biden administration officials are being sued, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, over federal overreach into labor relations in Florida.
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The Biden administration is accused of illegally threatening to withhold federal grants over a new union law to which the Biden administration objects.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is in the process of “decertifying” unions and prohibiting some state employers from collecting union dues by withholding them from employee paychecks. (Poll: Is Joe Biden Fit to be President? VOTE)
Biden’s Department of Labor has said that some federal grants will be withheld unless the commission permanently waives the new requirements for mass transit workers.
More than $800 million in federal grants are reportedly risk.
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The lawsuit says the federal government’s actions are “flagrantly unconstitutional.”
“It asks a federal judge to block the agencies from withholding federal grants as well as declare unconstitutional the part of the federal law the Department of Labor is relying on to question Florida’s law,” Politico reported.
“Public sector employees have a constitutional right to decide whether to participate in a union,” the 18-page complaint begins.
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“The Biden Administration, however, seeks to elevate the political and financial interests of Florida’s public sector unions over the rights of working class Floridians to make that decision for themselves.”
“Florida passed laws to protect workers from being strong-armed by unions,” state Attorney General Ashley Moody said in a statement.
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“Biden, intent on driving our country into the ground, continues to try to force states to implement his bad policies.”
