Don’t work, don’t get the paid. At least that’s how it goes in the dreaded private sector.
Via Breitbart:
If the federal government partially shuts down on Tuesday, federal worker unions are set to protest and demand back pay for government workers. Government unions may even consider lawsuits to get back pay for furloughed federal employees.
If Congress cannot agree to a short-term resolution to fund the government by Monday, parts of the federal government will shut down on Tuesday.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said he believes government employees should get back pay and, since many may be living “paycheck to paycheck,” he asserted, “We as a Congress need to be more sensitive to their needs.”
Union officials estimate roughly 800,000 workers will be furloughed as “non-essential” employees in the event of a government shutdown and will demand retroactive pay because the furloughs would “add insult to injury for workers who have been living under a pay freeze for three years.”