Trump is someone who "misunderstood the purpose of the career workforce, who went to war with his own [government] ... with the public's workforce," said Max Stier, president and chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit that studies the federal government. "He's done enormous damage."
Now, Biden has a long list of damage to undo.
At the top are actions that can be done with a pen stroke.
Biden can immediately reverse three Trump executive orders from 2018 that sharply curtailed the ability of organised labour to represent employees, including those who are not union members, and allowed agencies to fire feds faster.