He was a Baptist pastor for 31 years. Now he leads the largest federal labor union.
If Everett Kelley’s role as a Baptist preacher provides a pipeline to a higher authority, maybe it will offer the guidance and help he’ll need in his new gig as leader of the largest federal labor organization.
He was sworn in as president of the American Federation of Government Employees last week during a particularly fraught period for the union and federal employees generally. Kelley, 63, ascended to the office when J. David Cox Sr. resigned amid sexual misconduct allegations that had roiled the union for months. More importantly for feds beyond AFGE’s membership is President Trump’s sustained and successful attacks on government unions that hit even those who are not dues-payers.Through various actions, notably three executive orders issued in 2018, Trump has damaged the ability of labor organizations to support and defend federal staffers.
Trump, Reardon said, is “rewriting the rules of labor-management relations in the federal sector” to severely limit bargaining and how unions represent employees; “rigging the process for resolving disputes” by “stripping employees of their collective bargaining rights”; and “clogging the appeals process” by allowing the Merit Systems Protection Board to become “basically dormant. … An agency whose express purpose is to guard merit system principles has been left to die.
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