Erich Wagner at the Government Executive reports a Federal Appeals Court on Thursday (February 26th) declined to enforce a temporary decision blocking the Trump Administration from stripping two-thirds of the Federal Workforce of their Collective Bargaining Rights, dimming though not extinguishing the American Federation of Government Employees’ (AFGE) legal challenges against a pair of Anti-Union Executive Orders. A three-Judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that it could not uphold a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the Trump Administration from implementing a pair of 2025 Executive Orders that cite a seldom-used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to ban collective bargaining at most Federal Agencies, under the auspices of national security. That injunction had itself been put on hold by the Appellate Judges since last August. The AFGE has argued the President’s invocation of national security concerns in the Executive Orders is a mere pretext to retaliate against Unions for their actions speaking out against and challenging Trump’s policies in Court.

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