The Trump Administration told a federal district court that it’s appealing an order blocking an executive order designed to rescind collective bargaining rights for two-thirds of the federal workforce.
The preliminary injunction, issued earlier this week, was necessary because the executive order seeks to advance “unrelated policy goals” and is designed to retaliate against unions that challenge the administration, Judge Paul Friedman said in the April 28 opinion.
The holding was a setback for the administration’s effort to assert executive privilege to redefine the national order.
Trump’s order said that over 1 million federal workers were exempt from federal labor ...
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