Unions for Federal Workers to Protest as Shutdown Enters 20th Day
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WASHINGTON — Three weeks into the partial government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of people are still being asked to work for the government without pay, but they are legally prohibited from striking in protest.
Like 53,000 other TSA workers, Shekina Givens has been doing her job for the past three weeks without pay. She says she and her co-workers are “starting to get more nervous” and increasingly frustrated that they can’t strike as the shutdown drags on.
“It just makes you feel like you don’t have any leverage,” said Givens, who works at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and is American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) union representative. “They’re able to do whatever they want to do to us but there’s no way for us to fight, there’s no way for us to make a statement where it really counts,” she said.
https://yowbuzz.com/government-employees-being-forced-to-work-without-pay-are-not-allowed-to-strike/
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