A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot eliminate union bargaining for thousands of federal workers.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James Donato sided with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and other unions when he found that President Donald Trump’s executive order axing union bargaining at federal agencies is likely illegal.
In a 29-page opinion, Donato noted that federal employees have been allowed to form unions and bargain collectively for more than 60 years. The six unions that sued “appear to have been deemed hostile to the President,” he wrote, pointing out that Trump’s order threatened to dismantle that “long-standing status quo.”
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