Appeals court allows agencies to proceed with canceling collective bargaining

More agencies can move forward with canceling collective bargaining agreements that cover broad swaths of the federal workforce, after an appeals court issued a stay on a judge’s order that had been blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order from proceeding.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday lifted a preliminary injunction that had been temporarily preventing 21 agencies from implementing Trump’s order to broadly eliminate collective bargaining due to “national security” concerns. The ruling comes after an appeals court in May similarly ruled in a separate lawsuit that some agencies can move forward with Trump’s executive order.