Bureau of Prisons ordered to restore its union's contract
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 it last year.
On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the Bureau of Prisons to restore a collective bargaining agreement with its union, the National Council of Prison Locals. The Bureau's director, William Marshall, had abruptly ended the agreement on September 25, 2025, citing concerns that the union was an obstacle to progress. The judge, Vernon Oliver, ruled that Marshall's decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
The union, which represents around 30,000 federal prison employees, had met the burden of demonstrating it was likely to succeed in the case. Despite recent attempts by the Trump administration to bar federal agencies involved in national security from having collective bargaining agreements, the Bureau of Prisons had largely continued to uphold its agreement with the union for six months after the executive order was issued.
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