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Wed Jun 25, 2025, 12:19 PM Wednesday

Judge blocks Trump order curtailing federal union rights, citing 'plausible' retaliation concerns

President Donald Trump’s rollback of collective bargaining rights for much of the federal workforce is on hold for now, following a federal judge’s 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.

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/judge-blocks-trump-order-curtailing-federal-union-rights-citing-plausible-retaliation-concerns/

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