Trump administration appeals ruling striking down anti-union orders

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Trump administration appeals ruling striking down anti-union orders

By Lisa Rein
September 26 at 11:34 AM

The Justice Department has filed notice it is appealing a ruling by a federal judge that invalidated key provisions of a set of executive orders aimed at weakening federal employees’ union representation and easing their firing.

The case will now go before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

The Tuesday decision comes a month after U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington dealt the Trump administration a setback in its efforts to rein in the power of federal employee unions.

Jackson ruled in August that major elements of the three executive orders the White House issued just before Memorial Day were not valid, largely because the president lacks the authority to interfere with the collective bargaining rights Congress gave civil servants 40 years ago.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-administration-appeals-ruling-striking-down-anti-union-orders/2018/09/26/f1b89c1a-c198-11e8-b338-a3289f6cb742_story.html

[Bayard]

1. What's the point of this?

"weakening federal employees’ union representation and easing their firing."

[FiveGoodMen]

2. The point is slavery

One way or another.