A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from eliminating union bargaining for thousands of workers across the federal government.
Siding with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and other unions, U.S. District Judge James Donato ruled that President Trump’s executive order letting several federal agencies dispense with union bargaining is likely unlawful.
Donato wrote in a 29-page opinion that federal workers have had the right to unionize and collectively bargain for better employment conditions for more than 60 years, but Trump’s order threatened that “long-standing status quo.” The six unions that filed suit “appear to have been deemed hostile to the President,” he said.
The judge barred 21 federal agencies from following Trump’s order until the outcome of a trial in the unions’ lawsuit. Those court proceedings have yet to be scheduled.
The unions sued in April after Trump signed the order directing numerous agencies to end the union contracts, pointing to a provision of the federal civil service law that allows such exceptions for national security agencies.
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