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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia, said in a court order that Trump's orders,
which also would reduce the amount of time low-performing
employees had to improve their performance before being fired,
"undermine federal employees' right to bargain collectively."
Trump signed three executive orders in May that administration
officials said would give government agencies greater ability to
remove employees with "poor" performance, obtain "better deals"
in union contracts and require federal employees with union
responsibilities to spend less time on union work.
The directives drew immediate criticism from the American
Federation of Government Employees, which said the moves would
hurt veterans, law enforcement officers and others.
Jackson ruled that while the president has the authority to
issue executive orders relating to federal labor relations, the
orders cannot "eviscerate the right to bargain collectively" as
envisioned in a long-standing federal statute.
"The President must be deemed to have exceeded his authority in
issuing (the orders)," Jackson ruled.
(Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb in Washington; Editing by Leslie
Adler and Matthew Lewis)
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