Court lifts block on Trump order to strip federal workers of union rights

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

The injunction had frozen the president’s order seeking to remove collective bargaining rights from workers at dozens of government agencies and offices.

A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a block on an executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to strip union rights from federal workers at dozens of agencies and offices.

Trump in March issued an executive order that said that parts of the United States Code that protect federal workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain would no longer apply to agencies including most or all of the Departments of Treasury, Defense, Veterans Affairs, State and Justice. The executive order covers about two-thirds of the federal workforce, according to the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which filed a lawsuit challenging it.

It had been blocked by a federal judge last month as part of the NTEU lawsuit, but that block was lifted Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. In its order canceling the injunction, the appeals court’s 2-1 majority said the union had not proved it would suffer “irreparable harm” if the executive order was executed while the lawsuit challenging it was ongoing.

Judge J. Michelle Childs, a Biden appointee, dissented. Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson and Justin R. Walker, appointed by George H.W. Bush and Trump, respectively, sided with the government.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/17/trump-executive-order-unions-block-lifted/

[Lovie777]

1. Tell me that I'm having a nightmare................

[hildegaard28]

2. He's trying

To dismantle the union. How is that not irreparable harm?

[Karadeniz]

3. ???????? How long is irreparsble to them....plenty of harm now and in the nesr

future !!!!!

[bluestarone]

4. What can be said except

FUCKING rethuglicons!!

[hedda_foil]

5. Hopefully they'll immediately file an en banc appeal for a new injunction and reconsideration.

[badgervan]

6. The Reason

Every action they are taking is for one main reason: to transfer all the power that our entire government possesses from all of us to drumpf.
Sickening to witness this and to watch our spineless congress folk enable it...

[Nigrum Cattus]

7. Full nazi

That's what Adolph went after first as well.

[DrFunkenstein]

8. An End to Collective Bargaining Is A Cornerstone of Everything Trump Does

Trump doesn't really care about anything outside of making himself richer and more puffed up. But the moneyed people behind him are viewing his indifference as a unique opportunity to get through a decades-long project: smashing every union in the country so people have to fight back individually (and therefore hopelessly).

Look at the approach to education, for example. The "choice" that they want is really to run schools without unions, not because they really give a damn about schools but because it gets their foot in the door by taking down one of the biggest example of collective bargaining in the country.

[James48]

9. Hitler outlawed Unions too.