SPRINGFIELD — Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed two measures aimed at strengthening union protections in Illinois amid the Trump administration’s stripping of federal workers’ union contracts.

The signing comes after the Federal Emergency Management Agency joined at least three other federal agencies in canceling contracts with unions to comply with a March executive order that said collective bargaining requirements no longer applied to many federal agencies. President Donald Trump said the cancellations were allowed because the agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, play a role in national security, a claim that labor groups are disputing in court.

“With my signature, we are restoring hard fought worker protections that Trump and Congress are trying to destroy, prot

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