The Trump Administration's full-court press to drive unions out of the Federal workplace inadvertently helped to spread the COVID-19 virus, putting both civil servants and the public at greater risk, according to Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees.
"This administration had taken away the ability of management and the union to work together to resolve issues," he said in a wide-ranging phone interview May 15. "And I believe that if that had not happened, we would not have seen the extreme spread of this infection. The agencies across the board have denied us the opportunity for management and the union to partner together as we have done in the past to resolve issues."
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