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A federal appeals court on Friday lifted a judge's order blocking U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of
thousands of federal workers of the ability to engage in union
bargaining with U.S. agencies.
A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals put on hold an injunction issued by a lower court judge
that had been obtained by six unions including the American Federation
of Government Employees.
U.S. District Judge James Donato in San Francisco in June had issued
the injunction blocking 21 agencies from implementing Trump's March
executive order exempting many federal agencies from obligations to
bargain with unions.
Donato concluded Trump's order retaliated against unions deemed
critical of the president and that had sued over his efforts to
overhaul the government, including the mass firings of agency
employees, violating their right to free speech under the U.S.
Constitution's First Amendment.
But the 9th Circuit panel said Trump's order on its face "does not
express any retaliatory animus," and it agreed with the Trump
administration that the president "would have taken the same action
even in the absence of the protected conduct."
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-union/2025/08/01/id/1221027/
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