The Sound Guy
Pursuit Driver
I tend to agree with the workers on this one. Yea, they are promised they will get all their pay "when the shutdown is over" but that's little help when you need to feed your family and make house payments. Is the government going to pay the interest for all the short term loans they are going to take out?
What other industry could force their workers to keep working even if they were in bankruptcy and can't pay them now, but promise to pay them "later"? That's right, none. Right to work is one of the freedoms I believe in.
Not to mention the shutdown is such a staged fight. Trump could have had this fight over wall funding with the GOP for the last two years and chose not to. The Wall could be fully under construction by now. Why wait for the battle until now against a house that you know the majority will be against it? This is BS. If he really wanted it he would have pushed for it while he had the majority in "his" party.
Shut down ALL Federal functions, FBI, NSA, TSA (shutting down the airlines and their employees) and including paying the janitors, pages and support staff for the senate and house and see how much quicker something worked out if they are sitting in piles of trash in their offices with no help to answer the phones from millions of voters who are pissed off.
BQ Article Link
What other industry could force their workers to keep working even if they were in bankruptcy and can't pay them now, but promise to pay them "later"? That's right, none. Right to work is one of the freedoms I believe in.
Not to mention the shutdown is such a staged fight. Trump could have had this fight over wall funding with the GOP for the last two years and chose not to. The Wall could be fully under construction by now. Why wait for the battle until now against a house that you know the majority will be against it? This is BS. If he really wanted it he would have pushed for it while he had the majority in "his" party.
Shut down ALL Federal functions, FBI, NSA, TSA (shutting down the airlines and their employees) and including paying the janitors, pages and support staff for the senate and house and see how much quicker something worked out if they are sitting in piles of trash in their offices with no help to answer the phones from millions of voters who are pissed off.
BQ Article Link
(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge on Tuesday will decide whether to grant a temporary order requiring the U.S. to pay its workers or let them stay home or work elsewhere for wages, as the partial government shutdown -- already the longest in American history -- enters its 25th day.
Senior Judge Richard Leon in Washington is considering three lawsuits filed this month in which workers claim that their being forced to work without pay violates the U.S. Constitution and the Fair Labor Standards Act, among others.
Plaintiffs and Claims
- Plaintiffs include the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) and the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which represents 150,000 federal workers across 33 agencies, as well as four individuals represented by a Department of Transportation employee, Janette Hardy.
- NTEU has challenged an exception to the Antideficiency Act that addresses people’s safety and the protection of property. The union argues that a budget directive the administration issued just before last year’s brief shutdown impermissibly broadened the exception to sweep in “the ongoing, regular functions of government.”
- Natca’s complaint warns of safety lapses and calls its workers’ pay their property, protected by the Constitution. “America wants its air traffic controllers to be laser-focused on landing planes safely and monitoring America’s runways, not distracted by financial issues ... caused by the government’s unlawful taking of their property without due process,” it says.
- Air Traffic Control Specialist Hardy said the government’s demand that employees work without pay -- on pain of punishment if they fail to show up or seek gainful employment elsewhere -- violates the 13th Amendment’s prohibition against involuntary servitude.