Judge blocks Trump from removing Foreign Service workers’ collective bargaining rights

A federal judge granted Foreign Service workers a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump over his attempt to strip them of collective bargaining rights.

On March 27, Trump signed an executive order determining that federal workers whose primary function was listed under “intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work” could not be protected by collective bargaining due to “national security requirements and considerations.” The American Foreign Service Association, representing over 18,000 Foreign Service workers, sued the administration for the order. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman granted the association a preliminary injunction while its case is heard

Friedman favored the AFSA, arguing that Congress was on its side.

“Congress could not have been clearer in passing the Statute that it intended for the protections of the Statute

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