A major transit union sued the Department of Labor Thursday asking a federal court to ban the Trump administration from providing grants to California transit agencies, arguing that state pension-reform law has illegally reduced public-transit workers’ bargaining rights.
An agency change of position under the Trump administration allowing grants to California transit agencies despite the restrictions in the 2013-enacted pension-reform law runs afoul of the 1964 Urban Mass Transportation Act , according to a complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
Federal law requires the department to deny federal grants to states that have ...