A Republican senator is demanding answers from the Biden administration after a federal agency allowed ICE to eliminate the labor union for thousands of employees, leaving them working without a collective bargaining agreement.
Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican, said the Federal Labor Relations Authority appears to have acted rashly in last week’s decision to cancel union membership for the employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at a time when the union chapter, the National ICE Council, was alleging serious misconduct.
Mr. Lankford said the FLRA acted with stunning speed, approving the American Federal for Government Employees’ request to oust the union members in a few weeks, even though the FLRA regularly complains to senators about its massive backlog of work.