A year into the pandemic, the nation's largest Federal-employee union is still pressing agencies for testing and disclosure how many workers have died of the coronavirus and current infection rates in government workplaces.
"All we ask is basic safety," said Linda Ward Smith, president of American Federation of Government Employees Local 1224, during a Jan. 26 press call. "Testing is still not available to members or employees who want it. As we know, asymptomatic people [can] spread the disease."
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