In a victory for unions, a federal judge on Aug. 25 invalidated three executive orders from the Trump administration intended to make it easier to fire federal workers and weaken their union representation. Ruling in favor of the federal worker unions that sued to block the executive orders, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington determined that the executive orders “undermine federal employees’ right to bargain collectively” under federal law and ordered the administration to cease their implementation.

The rules — affecting 2.1 million federal employees — restricted the amount of on-the-clock time that union officials can use to represent their members, limited the issues that could be bargained over in union negotiations and rolled back workers’ rights to appeal disciplinary actions.

The rules had already begun to take effect, so many federal agencies will now have to change course to restore space in the workplace for union business and rehire union representatives.

The Washington Post, Aug. 25