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How Unions Are Responding: Litigation and Nonlitigation Updates

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2025 Federal Sector Conference
Speakers:
Dan Kaspar |  Carolyn Shapiro
Duration:
1 Hour 05 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Original Program Date:
Sep 18, 2025
Product Type:
On Demand - Also available: On Demand  8
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Description

This panel delves into the key aspects of the Trump administration's efforts to completely transform the federal government and its workforce, and what unions are doing to respond through litigation and other means. The panelists will discuss several relevant executive orders, mass firings of probationary employees, reductions-in-force, and the exclusions of agencies from the coverage of the federal labor statute.

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Dan Kaspar's Profile

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Director of Field Operations & Organizing

National Treasury Employees Union

Dan is the Director of Field Operations & Organizing for the National Treasury Employees Union. He is based out of Washington, D.C. and was previously Deputy Director of Field Operations & Organizing and an Assistant Counsel in NTEU’s Chicago Field Office, where he practiced before arbitrators, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and others. Dan has also held several leadership positions in the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law, including Union Co-Chair of the Federal Sector Labor and Employment Law Committee. Dan is a graduate of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. He holds a M.S. in Human Resources and Employment Relations and a M.B.A. in Economics from Loyola University Chicago’s Quinlan Graduate School of Business, and a B.S. in Business Administration from Illinois State University.

Carolyn Shapiro's Profile

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Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Academic Administration and Strategic Initiatives

Chicago-Kent College of Law

Carolyn Shapiro is a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she is also the founder and co-director of Chicago-Kent's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States (ISCOTUS), and the faculty director of the Constitutional Democracy Project, a civic education initiative. Professor Shapiro’s scholarship is largely focused on the Supreme Court, its relationship to other courts and institutions, and its role in our constitutional democracy, as well as on other structural constitutional matters. She teaches classes in constitutional law, legislation and statutory interpretation, and public interest law and policy, and she directs the Chicago-Kent Public Interest Certificate Program.

Professor Shapiro attended the University of Chicago Law School. After graduating, she served as a law clerk for Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the United States Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty at Chicago-Kent in 2003, she held a Skadden Fellowship at the Shriver National Center on Poverty Law and worked in private practice at a plaintiff’s side civil rights firm. From 2014 through mid-2016, she took a leave of absence from Chicago-Kent to serve as Illinois Solicitor General in the office of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Professor Shapiro maintains a small appellate practice and is Of Counsel to Schnapper-Casteras PLLC.

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