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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A sickout by unpaid federal employees could bring the impasse—and their status as hostages to the president’s whim—to an end. Federal workers might learn from the successful example set by teachers from West Virginia to Arizona in 2018.
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Federal workers have dealt with low pay, degraded working conditions, and repeated employer lockouts. If they want to improve their conditions, they’ll have to organize.
Two of the sources, who are federal officials, described the sick outs as protests of the paycheck delay.
President calls it a Democratic shutdown, while Democrats opposed to border wall funding chide Trump’s ‘temper tantrum’
Immigration reform is desperately needed. Dreamers and TPS recipients need their legal status maintained and millions more need legal protection. It should be possible for those millions of immigrants working in this country to gain a route to legalization and citizenship. Instead, the Trump White House demands a border wall, more ICE, more border guards, and even less legal protection for immigrants.
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