ATLANTA — CDC employees are set to return to the office Monday.

For some, it will be their first time back on the Roybal campus since a gunman sprayed several buildings with hundreds of bullets last month.

But union leaders say the return is too soon.

Yolanda Jacobs, president of AFGE Local 2883, the union representing CDC workers, says employees are still shaken from the August 8 attack.

"It is thoughtless, it is reckless, it does not take into consideration the trauma that some employees have sustained," Jacobs said.

She points to recent incidents of political violence — including the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah — as proof employees have reason to be fearful.

"If we look at what has been happening recently, their fears are not that unfounded," Jacobs

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