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Union alleges Bureau of Prisons in contempt for failing to reinstate collective bargaining agreement

The union representing 30,000 Bureau of Prisons employees is asking a federal judge to hold the agency in contempt, alleging that prison leadership has refused to follow the court’s order to immediately restore its collective bargaining agreement. The contempt request, filed Oct. 6, comes just one week after U.S. District Judge Vernon Oliver in Connecticut…

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Judge orders Bureau of Prisons to restore its union’s collective bargaining agreement

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Bureau of Prisons to reinstate a collective bargaining agreement with the agency’s union after the bureau’s director abruptly terminated the agreement over claims the union represented an “obstacle to progress.” Vernon Oliver, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, granted a motion for…

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