A Federal Appeals Court has cleared the way for the Trump Administration to cancel Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) across a broad segment of the Federal Government Workforce. A three-Judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco lifted an injunction that blocked implementation of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order canceling the contracts on national security grounds. American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley said the ruling means the legal fight will continue: “The Administration argued Unions should be forced into an administrative process that no longer applies after Workers are excluded from the statute. The Court rejected that argument and confirmed the Federal Courts are the proper forum to decide this dispute.” Meanwhile, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service recently terminated their CBAs with the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The NTEU says the move is illegal. “Regardless of whether the IRS continues to recognize NTEU as the exclusive representative of its Bargaining Unit Employees, there is no dispute that the Federal Labor Relations Authority certified that status, as your memorandum acknowledges, and has taken no action to undo it,” wrote NTEU President Doreen Greenwald. 

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