Trump signed the executive orders on bargaining rights in the grievance filing process to give government agencies more power to terminate poor performing workers but union advocates saw it as a way to weaken union protections now a federal judge has ruled that the president s actions infringe on the right of federal workers to collectively bargain and that trump overstepped his authority Sara sus check is a lawyer with the National Association of government employees if the administration seeks to have changed the guard to the federal workforce the legislation is the way to do it not through unlawful executive order the White House hasn t responded to the partial reversal of the orders which affect the country s roughly 2000000 federal employees Bobbie Allen n.p.r. News the Board of Elections in Randolph County Georgia has rejected a proposal to close 7 of 9 polling stations ahead of November s midterm elections residents mobilized against the closures which would have made it harder
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