A federal appeals court unfroze a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump‘s March order aiming to end collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of government workers.
Trump issued an executive order earlier this year calling for the end of collective bargaining across various executive agencies. The president cited the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and national security concerns for the order, but was quickly met with lawsuits to block the move.
A federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the executive order, but on Friday a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 in favor of staying the lower court’s ruling. The Friday decision allows the order to be unfrozen, but it noted that the
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