Judge blocks Trump order curtailing federal union rights, citing 'plausible' retaliation concerns
President Donald Trumps rollback of collective bargaining rights for much of the federal workforce is on hold for now, following a federal judges preliminary injunction.
A federal judge in San Francisco is temporarily blocking 21 agencies from enforcing an executive order that barred collective bargaining for about a million federal employees, citing national security reasons.
The executive order President Donald Trump signed in March barred unions from representing employees at agencies that primarily focused on national defense, foreign relations, cybersecurity, border security and public safety.
Judge James Donato ruled Tuesday night that Trump applied the national security label to an unprecedented swath of federal agencies, including whole cabinet departments for the first time in history, and greatly exceeded the scope of any other similar executive order.
Donato also determined Justice Department attorneys representing the Trump administration had a hard time justifying how some agencies, like the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, should primarily be considered as having a national security mission.
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