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Posted by Scott Lucas | Feb 3, 2021 |
Decrying “the moral and national shame of the previous administration”, President Joe Biden issues orders to redress the damage of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies.
Biden will establish a taskforce to reunify immigrant families separated at the US-Mexico border, when Trump officials implemented a “zero tolerance” approach that seized about 3,000 children from parents and sent them hundreds and even thousands of miles away.
Courts reversed the policy, but 545 children are still separated from parents who were quickly deported.
Decrying the “stain on the reputation” of America, Biden said his predecessor “literally, not figuratively, ripped children from the arms of their families, their mothers, and fathers, at the border, and with no plan – none whatsoever – to reunify”.
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email Union Leaders Report Slow Movement to Implement Biden Workforce Order
Agencies reportedly are waiting for guidance from their legal teams and OPM before taking action to repeal restrictions on collective bargaining, official time and other elements of the Trump administration’s workforce policies.
Officials at the nation’s largest federal employee union said that they have seen little progress from agencies in the days since President Biden signed an executive order rescinding Trump administration edicts on labor-management relations last week.
In a call with reporters, labor leaders across the federal government with the American Federation of Government Employees said that they are eager to get to work dismantling restrictions on official time, expanding the scope of collective bargaining and restoring both due process protections for federal workers and collaborative relations with management, but so far have been met with appreh