The government called federal union contracts a national security problem – round one goes to Trump
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for President Trump to strip collective bargaining rights from 800,000 federal workers – for now.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a decision filed February 26, 2026, vacated a preliminary injunction that had been blocking the president's Executive Order 14,251 – an order that removes collective bargaining protections from employees across a wide swath of the federal government. The decision is a significant setback for federal unions and adds fresh urgency to a broader national debate about the balance of power between management and organized labor in the workplace.
The executive order, signed on March 27, 2025, is sweeping in scale. Among the agencies it targets are the Departments of State, Justice, and Veterans Affairs, the Environmental Protection Agency, nearly all of the Departments of Energy, Defense, and Treasury, and various subdivisions of the Departments of Agriculture, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services.
The court noted it appears to be the largest single effort to date to exclude agencies and subdivisions from collective bargaining on national security grounds.
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