A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from pursuing its plans to end collective bargaining inside agencies across the federal government.
Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction barring the administration from enforcing President Donald Trump’s March executive order targeting collective bargaining inside more than a dozen departments and agencies across the government, including EPA, the National Science Foundation, and the Interior and Energy departments.
The employee unions “have raised serious questions under the First Amendment that warrant further litigation,” wrote Donato, an Obama appointee.
“Plaintiffs have also demonstrated a strong likelihood of irreparable harm from the loss of their collective bargaining,” Donato wrote, adding that an injunction would serve the “public interest.”
