A view of the House floor as members vote on Thursday. House TV

A group of House Republicans handed President Donald Trump a rare rebuke on Thursday, voting to restore collective bargaining rights he had stripped from about 1 million federal workers earlier this year.

But the legislation still faces significant hurdles before it can become law and aid the unions and their members.

Trump has moved to void labor contracts for about 700,000 federal workers as part of his move to take more control of the federal workforce. He wants to defund their unions by ending the practice of collecting union dues from workers’ paychecks.

Trump signed an unprecedented executive order in March citing national security as the reason to strip many federal workers of their collective bargaining rights. T

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