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AFGE: Biden Consulting Unions Has Made Difference on Worker Safety

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 9/29/21

More than nine months into Joe Biden's presidency, the head of the largest Federal-employee union said that while some progress has been made undoing the damage wreaked by the Trump Administration—particularly in improving workplace safetythere were "agencies that still want to live by those Trump executive orders, and it's taking some time to get the administration focused on those entities."

Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, cited the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Service and Food Inspection Service as entities that "remain resistant and want to stay in the Trump era. But we have just got to move."

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