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代表3万名监狱管理局雇员的工会正请求联邦法官认定该机构藐视法庭，指控监狱领导层拒绝遵守法院命令，立即恢复集体谈判协议。
这份于10月6日提交的藐视法庭申请，仅一周前，康涅狄格州美国地区法官弗农·奥利弗批准了全国监狱地方理事会提出的针对监狱管理局的初步禁令动议。
监狱管理局局长威廉·马歇尔于2025年9月25日终止了集体谈判协议。他声称该工会是“进步的障碍”，并称其并非“他能够支持的那种工会”。
法官裁定，工会很可能在其主张上胜诉，即监狱管理局终止集体谈判协议的行为违反了《行政程序法》，并命令该局立即恢复协议。
在藐视法庭动议中，工会指控监狱管理局领导层故意拖延，拒绝允许工会恢复正常运作，包括允许雇员享受“官方”工会活动时间。
动议及随附的宣誓书提到了一个典型案例：一名面临解雇的联邦监狱管理局雇员请求在会议上由工会代表为其辩护。
根据动议，一名监狱管理局官员据称对该雇员说：“根本没有工会这回事。”该雇员于10月5日被解雇。
工会的另一项指控称，马歇尔在9月29日，也就是法院裁决公布的数小时前，曾表示，除非接到白宫的直接命令，否则他不会执行集体谈判协议的条款。
“被告方既未恢复工会办公场所或官方活动时间，也未允许在纪律程序中使用工会代表，更未采取被告方此前向法院表明的、若法院下达所申请禁令则必须采取的其他一系列具体措施，”工会律师写道。
“被告方的拒不服从是全面的。”
在代表联邦惩教所门多塔分院雇员的美国联邦政府雇员协会第1237地方分会发布的新闻稿中，工会指控该设施的管理人员还将工会官员锁在了办公室外。
监狱管理局以诉讼尚未了结为由拒绝置评。
自法院9月29日原初裁决批准工会的初步禁令请求以来，司法部尚未正式申请暂缓执行该裁决。
不过，司法部在10月2日向法院提交了正式的“合规通知”。文件中称，监狱管理局“已知悉”法院的命令，并“正在遵守其条款”。
但与此同时，司法部也表示，其认为法院的裁决并不意味着监狱管理局不能在2028年5月集体谈判协议到期前，再次尝试终止该协议。
司法部还补充称，其不认为美国地区法院会监督“监狱管理局未遵守集体谈判协议的每一项所谓违规行为”。
特朗普政府一直在试图取消多个联邦机构的工会。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。该命令同样适用于包括监狱管理局在内的司法部。
但在该命令公布后，监狱管理局允许其工会继续运作约六个月，随后才终止集体谈判协议。
当时马歇尔在作出该决定时，并未以国家安全作为理由。
Union alleges Bureau of Prisons in contempt for failing to reinstate collective bargaining agreement
October 7, 2026 / 3:56 PM EDT / CBS News
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 granted a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Prisons that was sought by the National Council of Prison Locals.
Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall terminated the collective bargaining agreement on Sept. 25, 2025. He alleged the union posed an “obstacle to progress” and said it was not the “kind of union” he could support.
The judge ruled that the union was likely to succeed on the merits of its argument that the BOP had violated the Administrative Procedure Act by terminating the collective bargaining agreement and ordered the bureau to reinstate it immediately.
In its motion for contempt, the union alleged that bureau leadership is stonewalling and refusing to allow the union to resume its usual operations, including by allowing people to have “official” union time.
In one such example, the motion and an accompanying sworn statement said that a BOP employee who was facing termination asked to be represented by a shop steward at the meeting.
“There ain’t no union,” a BOP official allegedly told the employee, according to the motion. The employee was terminated on Oct. 5.
In another allegation, the union said that Marshall told people on Sept. 29, hours before the court ruling hit the docket, that he had no plans to enforce the terms of the collective bargaining agreement unless he received direct orders from the White House.
“They have not restored union office space or official time, allowed for union representation in disciplinary proceedings, or taken any of the other myriad specific steps that Defendants themselves told the court would be required if the court entered the requested injunction,” attorneys for the union wrote.
“Defendants’ noncompliance is total.”
In a press release issued by American Federation of Government Employees Local 1237, which represents employees at FCI Mendota, the union alleged that management in that facility had also locked union officials out of their offices.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.
Since the court’s original Sept. 29 order granting the union’s request for a preliminary injunction, the Justice Department has not formally sought a stay to pause the ruling.
On Oct. 2, however, the Justice Department filed a formal “notice of compliance” with the court. In that filing, it said BOP was “aware” of the court’s order and “complying with its terms.”
But at the same time, the department also said that it did not understand the court’s ruling to mean that the BOP could not proceed with trying to re-terminate the collective bargaining agreement again before it expires in May 2028.
It also added that the Justice Department did not expect the U.S. District Court would be supervising “every alleged failure” by BOP to comply with the collective bargaining agreement.
The Trump administration has been trying to eliminate 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 applied to the Justice Department, which includes the Bureau of Prisons.
But after the order was made public, the BOP allowed its union to continue operating for approximately six months before terminating the collective bargaining agreement.
In doing so, Marshall at the time did not cite national security as a basis for his decision.