Trump’s Anti-Union Orders Complicate Efforts To Halt Shutdown Firings

The Trump administration’s attempts to sideline federal unions and terminate bargaining contracts threaten to complicate unions’ efforts to stop the administration’s shutdown-related firings, with EPA adopting an apparently ambivalent stance toward the scope of a court order blocking the firings while maintaining that it is complying. After a federal judge blocked the administration’s mass firings via an Oct. 15 temporary restraining order (TRO), EPA and other agencies have cited the administration’s efforts to strip unions of their bargaining rights, particularly...