'Nothing short of inhumane': Union sues Trump administration over shutdown

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Washington Post

A federal employees union filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, alleging that the partial government shutdown is illegally forcing more than 400,000 federal employees to work without pay.

The partial shutdown began Dec. 22.

Since then, many federal agencies have temporarily closed and delayed worker compensation indefinitely. Even so, employees deemed “essential” or “excepted” have been expected to come to work. The suit asked that the named plaintiffs and others with the same classification be paid owed wages.

“It’s outrageous the government expects them to work without knowing when they’ll get their next paycheck,” lead attorney Heidi Burakiewicz said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/02/federal-work-force-shouldnt-be-used-pawn-union-sues-trump-administration-over-shutdown/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.42d906ec42f5

[Achilleaze]

1. republicans pissing on America's work force

inhumane (R)

[duforsure]

2. Lets hope ALL union members remember this

And vote all Republicans out of office for supporting this against them now, especially trump, but he won't be around by then.

[watoos]

3. I hear that Trump is going to use worker's back pay

as a bargaining tactic to get his wall funding. No wall money, no back pay.

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Yeah, Trumka remember this.

“I don’t want to see in your story: Trumka says he’ll endorse Trump,” Trumka said. “I’m not saying that. I’m saying, we’ll consider every candidate who’s running, and our members will help us decide that.”

A few hours later, Gizzi’s story went up with the headline “AFL-CIO’s Trumka Won’t Rule Out Unions Endorsing Trump in 2020.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/08/03/will-the-nations-biggest-unions-endorse-trump-no-but-its-complicated/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c2928fd467db