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.
Trump fires back at Nancy P after she proposes postponing the State of the Union address. Cardi B sounds off about the government shutdown. Michael Kosta unpacks the use of crowdfunding to help unpaid federal workers.
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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