Union RIF Lawsuit Has Some Large NASA Errors

Keith’s note: A lawsuit has been filed by a group of employee unions in the U.S. District Court in D.C. against the current administration and its appointees regarding ongoing personnel actions.

• “The Unions bring this action to protect the workers they represent from the Executive Branch’s attempts to dismantle the federal government through the mass firings of hundreds of thousands of employees (those who are considered “nonessential” for purposes of a government shutdown and those who are in probationary status) and a pressure campaign on federal workers to quit their jobs through a “deferred resignation program.”
• I am not a lawyer but I find it odd that one of the names of Federal Agency and Department appointees mentioned as being a defendant is “MAKENZIE LYSTRUP, M.D.” For starters she has a Ph.D in astrophysics – not an M.D. Second she is the NASA GSFC Center Director. She does not run NASA. She is told precisely what to do in these personnel matters by NASA HQ. Her direction comes from Janet Petro, the “Acting” Administrator of NASA. Neither of these people are political appointees. Petro is also told precisely what to do – apparently by Darren Bossie, the Trump Administration’s White House liaison to NASA. Just wanted to clear that up, Union folks. Accuracy counts.