In a decisive legal victory for the Trump administration’s initiative to streamline government operations, a federal judge has denied a motion by labor unions to block the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, from accessing sensitive systems within the Department of Labor.
The lawsuit, brought by one of the largest labor unions in the U.S., aimed to obstruct what they described as Musk’s “imminent plan” to delve into the Labor Department’s systems.
On Wednesday, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, along with four of its affiliated unions and the Economic Policy Institute, filed a lawsuit to block Elon Musk and his DOGE team from gaining access to Department of Labor data.
The unions argued that such data sharing would violate the Privacy Act of 1974 and potentially jeopardize the privacy of workers across the nation.
“Elon Musk has absolutely no business raiding the Department of Labor to obtain the sensitive personal information of workers,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. […]
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