Latest Breaking News

BumRushDaShow

(157,392 posts) Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:04 PM Jun 25

Judge blocks Trump's order ending federal workers' bargaining rights

Source: Scripps News

Posted 10:36 AM, Jun 25, 2025

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump's executive order to end collective bargaining rights for many federal workers. A coalition of unions representing nearly a million federal workers requested the preliminary injunction.

Judge James Donato, an appointee of President Barack Obama, issued the preliminary injunction. The injunction will remain in place through a July 17 hearing.

"For more than 60 years, Americans who worked for the federal government as civil servants have had the right to unionize and collectively bargain for the conditions of their employment," Donato wrote in his ruling. "These rights were first granted to federal employees in a series of executive orders beginning in 1962, and then codified when Congress enacted the Federal Service-Labor Management Relations Statute in 1978."

Donato added that President Trump's executive order caused the long-standing status quo to abruptly change. The White House argued that employee unions did not have the standing to sue. Donato disagreed, saying they "demonstrated a strong likelihood of irreparable harm from the loss of their collective bargaining and allied rights."

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/business/jobs-employment/judge-blocks-trumps-order-ending-federal-workers-bargaining-rights

Link to RULING (PDF viewer) - https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69842923/60/american-federation-of-government-employees-afl-cio-v-trump/

Link to RULING (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.447533/gov.uscourts.cand.447533.60.0.pdf

2 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Judge blocks Trump's order ending federal workers' bargaining rights (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 25 OP

Ahhh yes the party for the workers kkmarie Jun 25 #1

I think there is a generational issue BumRushDaShow Jun 25 #2

kkmarie

(282 posts)

1. Ahhh yes the party for the workers

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 03:53 PM

Jun 25

The Krasnov regime is the party for the workers but hates unions. Hmmm.

But not sure this helps, 2 big unions leaving the DNC

Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders quit the Democratic National Committee, saying it isn’t doing enough to “open the gates” and win back the support of working-class voters. Ken Martin, the new DNC chair, and his allies told the Guardian that the party was focused on doing exactly that.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/dnc-union-leaders-democratic-party

BumRushDaShow

(157,392 posts)

2. I think there is a generational issue

Reply to kkmarie (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:33 PM

Jun 25

as part of a normal "pass the torch" moment and the chaos as that happens, but because of the internet and social media, it gets magnified.

I also think that Citizen's United decision has really turbocharged the money-in-politics problem and considering it "speech", and that pushes politicos to have to seek it out, often from unsavory sources.

I really wished that Russ Feingold and John McCain had gotten together right after that decision to try to fix their Campaign Finance law that got overturned with that ruling but it was eventually too late.

Reply to this discussion