Administration, unions trade lawsuits over ‘national security' order to reduce feds' rights

It’s been just days since President Trump signed an unprecedented executive order aimed at stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective-bargaining rights, but both the White House and federal employee unions are already trading lawsuits over the edict.Last Thursday, Trump signed an executive order citing a rarely used provision of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act to ban unions at the Defense Department and other federal agencies under the guise of national securi