If the shutdown resumes, we urge federal workers to stay away from work and their allies to occupy airports on 2/16.
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The shutdown that ended Friday left an especially painful toll for African-Americans who make up nearly 20 percent of the federal workforce and historically have been on the low end of the government pay scale.
The news of terminals closing at LaGuardia Airport put “gasoline on the fire.”
Thank you, Mr. President, for shutting down the government and holding 800,000 federal employees hostage. All for nothing!
Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants is calling on "conference activists from across the Labor Movement" to conduct a "general strike to end the government shutdown."
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Andres’s World Central Kitchen served meals to thousands of government employees this week and plans to keep doing so until the shutdown is over.
By January 14, the TSA itself was conceding that the national rate of sick calls was three times as high as the same day a year ago.
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