A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s effort to cancel collective bargaining agreements for U.S. Agency for Global Media and Voice of America employees, slamming the move as clear retaliation for the workers’ efforts to halt Trump’s dismantling of the news outlet.
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman found President Donald Trump’s Aug. 28 executive order, “Further Exclusions from the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program,” wrongfully tried to classify the independent media agencies as having a “primary national security function” to strip their employees of union representation.
Other agencies targeted by the order included NASA, the National Weather Service, the International Trade Commission, the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service and the Office of the Commissioner for Patents.
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