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Some worry the area could be turned into a car park
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City commuters can expect up to nine months of delays as a second major structural repair and resurfacing works begin in Great Barr - with some worrying it could turn the area into a car park .
By Natalie Alms
Everett Kelley receives an award at the annual National Action Network Martin Luther King Jr. Day Breakfast, Jan. 2019. (Photo courtesy: AFGE)
The largest federal employee union is pressing for some legislative wins with Democrats in charge of both houses of Congress and in control of the White House.
The top priority is ensuring safe working conditions during the pandemic and the provision of COVID-19 paid sick leave benefits for feds, said American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley during a Sunday press call. But the union also has a long list of other priorities. We must operate as if two years is our window of opportunity, he said during a plenary session held as part of the union s annual legislative and grassroots mobilization conference.
Federal labor’s high expectations for a Biden workforce revitalization February 22 President Joe Biden has promised to be a pro-union president, and federal labor leaders expect a robust enforcement of that policy. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) President Joe Biden promised throughout his campaign and early days of his administration to be an ally for organized labor across the country and within the federal government. He backed up those promises through early day executive orders that overturned several Trump administration workforce policies and instituted protections for federal employees. But officials from the American Federation of Government Employees say that such policies without accompanying accountability mechanisms will not have the necessary force behind them to prioritize the needs of federal labor unions.