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Its newsletter to members-only updating them on all the court cases it and other unions have filed against the various Trump efforts to destroy unions,  fire federal employees, and turn the Executive Branch into a threatening club to build the Trump family’s personal wealth. NTEU updates its members a couple of times a month on almost every  lawsuit that could have an impact on their lives. And there are many. (The most recent NTEU Legal update reported on 16 cases filed by it, AFGE, NAAE, AFSA, POPA, FEA and the AFL-CIO.)  For example, depending on how these cases play out those feds fired as probationers could be reinstated with gobs of back pay and benefits; the same goes for those RIF’d or whose work or agency was shutdown.  In addition, these cases have the potential to give those union officials who have had to do union work on their own time, due to Trump’s cancellation of their negotiated official time, back pay as well for those extra hours. Similarly, any employee who could have filed a grievance had Trump not terminated their negotiated right to grieve should be able to file it no matter how far beyond the negotiated filing deadline.  FEDSMILL is of the opinion that one of the great benefits of unions is the information they can or potentially can give their members about their job site and career. These cases and similar fed employee developments are almost never covered in the general media. When people ask, “What has my union done for me lately?” unions that can point to a constant flow of information to members only have a ready answer to that.