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Rail Rehab Leads Feds To Keep Telecommuting

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 6/10/19

This summer’s "commute from hell" in the  Washington D.C. area has prompted an about-face by the Trump Administration, which had previously planned to limit telecommuting by tens of thousands of Federal workers as part what one union official called the Administration's “scorched-earth” strategy to reduce the labor influence in the workplace.

The shift came in response to a shutdown that started late last month of several critical Metro rail stations on the Yellow and Green lines south of Reagan National Airport.

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