A labor union representing NASA workers filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy this week in a Washington, D.C., federal court over an executive order stripping collective bargaining rights from federal employees.

On Aug. 28, the 45th and 47th president issued Executive Order 14343, entitled: " Further Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management Programs ." The order, under the auspices of "national security," purports to remove six agencies from the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute, a federal law that has provided collective bargaining rights for most federal employees since 1978.

In a 26-page complaint , the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, representing some 6,000 NASA workers, claims the ex

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