Trump Order on Union Contracts Fails Legal Scrutiny, Judge Says

A union representing more than 100,000 federal workers is likely to win its case alleging the Trump administration illegally rescinded collective bargaining rights for two-thirds of the federal workforce, a D.C. federal judge said.

President Donald Trump’s executive order excluding federal employees from labor protections was unlawful because it sought to further “unrelated policy goals” and was designed to retaliate against unions that challenge the administration, Judge Paul Friedman of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in an injunction opinion Monday in another legal setback for the administration.

Trump had declared more than 1 million workers ...