Federal court scraps major portions of Trump labor orders

A federal district judge has struck down as unlawful major elements of President Donald Trump's trio of executive orders that directed EPA and other agencies to seek more management-friendly contracts with their unions on a host of issues, though the decision leaves in place provisions that strengthen discipline and firing procedures. The Aug. 24 ruling by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sides with government employee unions that challenged the orders in...