The Trump administration appealed a federal judge’s order protecting the collective bargaining agreements of some government labor unions from the president’s efforts to demolish them.
The US Department of Justice gave noticeof the appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, seeking to overturn a district judge’s Sept. 30 preliminary injunction pausing the nullification of the collective bargaining agreements.
The order applies to workers represented by the International Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers, the American Federation of Teachers, the International Association of Machinists, and several other members of the AFL-CIO labor federation.
Similar junctions have been stayed by appeals courts. In September, the DC circuit heldthat the National Treasury Employees Union hadn’t demonstrated irreparable harm from Trump’s executive order, and the Ninth Circuit paused another order from a California judge, citing the president’s broad national security powers.
The case is AFL-CIO v. Trump, D.D.C., 1:25-cv-02445, 12/1/25.
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