Biden Administration Requests Ethics Rules Be Ignored for Union Bosses Appointed to Top Administration Positions

Jacob Bliss 7 May 2021

The Biden administration has been requesting that union bosses, after being appointed to top administration positions, be excluded from ethics rules that bar them from being lobbied by their former union.

Biden has relied heavily on labor union personnel to fill vacancies within his administration, which in turn helps drive policy in their favor, according to the report. Biden gave the unions a huge voice within the federal bureaucracy “at the cost of strictly adhering to his own stringent ethics standards,” the report showed................More ethics rules were waived in March in the Office of Personnel Management for Alethea Predeoux, the director of intergovernmental affairs. Predeoux reportedly was the top lobbyist for the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE). This is the union that represents hundreds-of-thousands of federal government workers. The report said, “absent a waiver, Biden’s ethics pledge would bar her from working on issues on which she lobbied.”...........To Read More....