Appeals Court Allows Trump to End Union Bargaining for Some Federal Workers

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Unions sought to challenge the presidentโ€™s order ending collective bargaining for employees of government agencies with national security missions.

A federal appeals court on Friday paused a lower court injunction that had blocked the Trump administration from ending union bargaining rights for thousands of federal workers at 21 agencies.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted an emergency stay sought by the administration, putting on hold a preliminary injunction issued by District Judge James Donato in June in response to a lawsuit filed by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and five other unions representing federal employees.

The unions sought to challenge President Donald Trumpโ€™s March 27 executive order, which aimed to eliminate collective bargaining rights for employees of government agencies with national security missions.

In a 15-page decision, the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit panel stated that the government is likely to succeed on the merits of the plaintiffsโ€™ retaliation claim, finding that Trumpโ€™s order does not, on its face, โ€œexpress any retaliatory animus.โ€

โ€œEven assuming that plaintiffs have made out a prima facie claim of retaliation, on this record the government has shown that the president would have taken the same action even in the absence of the protected conduct,โ€ the judges stated.

The three-panel judges said that while parts of a fact sheet published with the order may โ€œreflect a degree of retaliatory animus toward plaintiffsโ€™ First Amendment activities,โ€ it also โ€œdemonstrates Trumpโ€™s focus on national securityโ€ when taken as a whole.

โ€œIn other words, the fact sheet conveys an overarching objective of protecting national security through its assessment that collective bargaining impedes the functioning of agencies with national security-related responsibilities,โ€ the panel said.

The Ninth Circuit said the government has shown that it will likely suffer irreparable harm if the injunction remains in place pending appeal, and that putting it on hold โ€œwill serve the public interest.โ€

In a statement, AFGE National President Everett Kelley described the ruling as a blow to First Amendment rights in the United States, but said that the union is โ€œconfident in our ability to ultimately prevail.โ€

By Aldgra Fredly

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