By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court lifted an order on Friday that blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of the ability to unionize and collectively bargain over working conditions.

The injunction had frozen the president’s order seeking to remove collective bargaining rights from workers at dozens of government agencies and offices.

A federal judge granted Foreign Service workers a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump over his attempt to strip them of collective bargaining rights. On March 27, Trump signed an executive order determining that federal workers whose primary function was listed under “intelligence,