Josh Gerstein at Politico reports a Federal Appeals Court has lifted a lower Court order that prevented the Federal Government from implementing President Donald Trump’s plan to end collective bargaining by Workers at more than a dozen Federal Agencies. In a 2-1 ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman appeared to have erred last month when he froze Trump’s Executive Order on the subject. The Appeals Court’s majority said there was insufficient evidence the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) faced “irreparable harm” that would justify the preliminary injunction, Friedman said in his ruling. The NTEU said Trump’s order threatened to end Union Representation for about 100,000 Federal Workers, or roughly two-thirds of NTEU’s Membership.

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