Court lifts block on Trump order to strip federal workers of union rights [View all]
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/
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