Daniel Wiessner and Nate Raymond at Reuters reports a Federal Judge has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from eliminating Union Bargaining for hundreds of thousands of Federal Workers at 21 agencies. U.S. District Judge James Donato agreed with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and other Unions that Trump's March Executive Order exempting many Federal Agencies from obligations to bargain with Unions was likely illegal. Eliminating Collective Bargaining would allow agencies to alter working conditions and fire or discipline Workers more easily, and it could prevent Unions from challenging Trump Administration initiatives in court. Donato’s preliminary injunction blocks 21 agencies from implementing Trump's order pending the outcome of a trial in the lawsuit brought by six Unions, whom he said "appear to have been deemed hostile to the President." AFGE President Everett Kelley said Trump's order "was clearly a retaliatory attempt to bust Federal Unions and wreak havoc on our Nation’s workforce and the services they provide to the American People."

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