Nate Raymond at Reuters reports a Federal Appeals Court has lifted a Judge's order blocking President Donald Trump's Administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of Federal Workers of the ability to engage in Union bargaining with U.S. Agencies. A three-Judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold an injunction issued by a Lower Court Judge that had been obtained by six Unions - including the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). Trump's order exempted more than a dozen Federal Agencies from obligations to bargain with Unions - including the Departments of Justice, State, Defense, Treasury, and Health and Human Services. AFGE National President Everett Kelley called the ruling "a setback for First Amendment rights in America." The 9th Circuit put the injunction on hold pending a further appeal, and Kelley said the Union is "confident in our ability to ultimately prevail."

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