Judge Blocks Order To Dismantle Federal Worker Unions

CNN reports:

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating the collective bargaining rights for a sizeable share of the federal workforce. The preliminary injunction issued by US District Court Judge Paul Friedman in the District of Columbia also found that a key section of President Donald Trump’s executive order allowing more than a dozen federal agencies to end collective bargaining with unions to be unlawful.

As part of his effort to overhaul the federal workforce, Trump signed the order in late March aimed at stripping collective bargaining rights from government employees whose work include national security aspects. The expansive order applies to workers at the departments of State, Defense, Justice, and HHS, among others. It also impacts the CDC, the FCC, and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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