{"id":1053,"date":"2025-03-14T23:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T03:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2025-03-14T23:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T03:23:43","slug":"narfe-files-suit-on-behalf-of-federal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/2025\/03\/14\/narfe-files-suit-on-behalf-of-federal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"NARFE Files Suit to Preserve Merit-Based Civil Service and Sues Over Elon Musk&#8217;s Unprecedented and Illegal Hack of Americans&#8217; Private Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE has filed suit in the U.S. District Court to block the implementation of Executive Order 14171 creating Schedule Policy\/Career (or Schedule P\/C, formerly known as Schedule F). \u201cSchedule P\/C would erode of eliminate merit-based civil service protections that ensure the basic operation of government is carried out by nonpartisan, professional public servants instead of political loyalists,\u201d says Bill Shackelford, NARFE\u2019s national president. For more information, click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/06\/narfe-files-suit-to-preserve-merit-based-civil-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>NARFE, along with a coalition of labor unions representing over two million workers, also filed suit to stop Elon Musk\u2019s data heist inside three separate federal agencies under the guise of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). \u201cSteamrolling into sensitive government record systems has led to a massive data breach that threatens to upend how these critical systems are maintained and seriously compromises the safety and security of personal identifying information for Americans all across the country,\u201d the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, reads. \u201cIt also violates federal law.\u201d To learn more, click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/narfe-coalition-sue-over-elon-musks-unprecedented-and-illegal-hack-of-americans-private-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1051 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2025\/03\/gavel-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Gavel\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2025\/03\/gavel-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2025\/03\/gavel-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2025\/03\/gavel-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2025\/03\/gavel.jpg 1159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE files suit to preserve Merit-Based Civil Service, and files suit over the disclosure of sensitive records of millions of Americans to DOGE staff who have not been properly vetted or have the proper security clearances for access to such information.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2025\/03\/gavel.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}