A federal appeals court cleared the way last week for the Trump administration to pursue plans to end collective bargaining for employees at the Interior and Energy departments, EPA and other agencies, even as unions are challenging the changes in court.
On Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a lower court order that prevented the administration from enforcing President Donald Trump’s March executive order barring collective bargaining at more than two dozen agencies and sub-agencies based on national security concerns.
The new order, an emergency stay, is in effect while the challenges to the EO works its way through the courts.
“Whatever harm to collective bargaining rights that Plaintiffs will experience due to a stay is mitigated by the direction to agencies to refrain from terminating collective bargaining agreements until litigation has concluded,” the court said in an unsigned order.
