2026年9月29日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:14 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
美国一名联邦法官周二下令联邦监狱管理局恢复与该机构工会的集体谈判协议。此前该局局长以工会是“进步障碍”为由突然终止了该协议。
康涅狄格州联邦地区法官弗农·奥利弗批准了全国监狱地方委员会提出的初步禁令动议，要求恢复该协议。联邦监狱管理局局长威廉·马歇尔于2025年9月25日终止了这份协议。
特朗普政府一直在多个联邦机构试图打压工会。
2025年3月，特朗普总统发布一项行政命令，试图将涉及国家安全或情报工作的联邦办公室排除在与员工签订集体谈判协议的范围之外。该命令也适用于包含联邦监狱管理局的司法部。
尽管有这项命令，联邦监狱管理局在行政命令发布后的六个月里仍基本遵守了与工会的集体谈判协议。该工会代表了全国范围内约3万名在联邦监狱工作的文职人员。
奥利弗在其裁决中指出，马歇尔在选择终止协议时发表的言论表明，他终止协议的理由并非出于国家安全考量。
在联邦监狱管理局官网的一则公告中，马歇尔表示，隶属于美国联邦政府雇员联合会的全国监狱地方委员会并非他所支持的“那种工会”，并指控该合同“屡屡延缓或阻碍改革”。
“本案不涉及第14251号行政命令的合法性——相关诉讼正在全国其他地区进行，”奥利弗写道，“相反，法院目前面临的直接问题是，如原告所称，联邦监狱管理局终止集体谈判协议的决定是否违反了《行政程序法》。”
他补充说，该工会已经满足了举证责任，证明其在案件实质问题上很可能胜诉。
“被告应立即恢复集体谈判协议，并遵守协议中约定的剩余任期内的所有条款，”法官补充道。
全国监狱地方委员会33分会主席布兰迪·怀特周二在给会员的声明中对法官的裁决表示赞赏，但同时警告称，司法部可能会请求暂缓执行裁决。
“我们明天应该能获得更多相关信息，”她写道。
“这是重要的一步，但我们的斗争尚未结束，”她写道。
最近一次，联邦监狱管理局与其工会在2024年11月签订了一份修订后的集体谈判协议，有效期至2029年5月。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻已联系联邦监狱管理局征求置评。
Judge orders Bureau of Prisons to restore its union’s collective bargaining agreement
September 29, 2026 / 9:14 PM EDT / CBS News
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 a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Prisons that was sought by the National Council of Prison Locals to restore the agreement after Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall terminated it on Sept. 25, 2025.
The Trump administration has been trying to snuff out unions at multiple federal agencies.
In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order that sought to exclude federal offices involved in national security or intelligence work from having collective bargaining agreements with staff. That order also applies to the Justice Department, which includes the Bureau of Prisons.
Despite that order, the Bureau of Prisons continued to largely uphold its collective bargaining agreement with its union for six months after the executive order was issued. The union represents approximately 30,000 civil servants who work in federal prisons throughout the country.
Oliver noted in his order that when Marshall opted to end the agreement, he made comments that suggested he was ending it for reasons other than national security.
In a message on the Bureau of Prisons’ website, Marshall said that the National Council of Prison Locals, part of the American Federation of Government Employees, was not the “kind of union” he supported, and alleged the contract “has too often slowed or prevented changes.”
“This case does not concern the validity of EO-14,251 — that litigation is ongoing elsewhere throughout the nation,” Oliver wrote. “Rather, the immediate issue before the court is whether, as alleged, BOP’s decision to terminate the CBA violated the Administrative Procedure Act.”
He added that the union had met the burden of demonstrating it was likely to succeed on the merits of the case.
“Defendants shall immediately reinstate the CBA for the remainder of the agreed-upon term provided in the CBA and shall be governed by the terms of the agreement,” the judge added.
CPL-33 President Brandy White, in a statement to members on Tuesday, lauded the judge’s ruling, but also cautioned that the Justice Department is likely to request a stay.
“We should have more information regarding that tomorrow,” she wrote.
“This is an important step, but our fight is not over,” she wrote.
Most recently, the BOP and its union entered into a revised collective bargaining agreement in November 2024 that runs through May 2029.
CBS News has reached out to the Bureau of Prisons for comment.
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