A group of Democratic senators have revisited a long-dormant effort to broaden the bargaining unit of administrative law judges at the Social Security Administration, buoyed by recent guidance from the Biden administration aimed at encouraging collective bargaining at federal agencies.
WASHINGTON — Oct. 22, 2021 — The Association of Administrative Law Judges, which has continually called for an end to quotas that attempt to undermine due process, is empowered by the recent end of similar quotas foisted upon U.S. immigration judges.
WASHINGTON — Aug. 5, 2021 —
Judge Melissa McIntosh, the president of the Association of Administrative Law Judges (AALJ), issued the following statement upon the death of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. AALJ is a local of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, AFL- CIO, and represents approximately 1,100 judges across 160 offices who preside in Social Security disability hearings.