A judge has moved again to block Trump's anti-union EO
For the second time in as many months, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from implementing a March executive order that purports to strip two-thirds of the federal workforce of its right to join and be represented by a union.
In March, President Trump signed an executive order citing a rarely used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to strip most employees of their collective bargaining rights under the auspices of national security. The edict also applied a similar national security exemption in the law governing U.S. Foreign Service officers to strip them of their union rights at both the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development.
Like in Friedman’s first decision, the Washington, D.C.-based jurist found that unlike in most other union lawsuits in district court, the American Foreign Service Association may skip administrative review by the Foreign Service Labor Relations Board because Trump’s executive order explicitly removes the union from the quasi-judicial agency’s purview.
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