A union that represents 150,000 U.S. government employees filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to block President Donald Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of the ability to collectively bargain with government agencies through their unions.

The Trump administration is being sued over President Donald Trump’s move to strip collective bargaining rights from a host of federal government employee unions. The president announced last week that hundreds of thousands of workers would no longer enjoy collective bargaining through their union,

The National Treasury Employees Union claims that Trump's executive order last week exempting more than a dozen agencies from collective bargaining obligations violates federal workers' labor rights and the U.