Live Breaking News & Updates on National Action Network Martin Luther King Jr

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. ....

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