With days until a government shutdown, which would furlough and stop paychecks to federal employees nationwide, the major federal government employee unions are trying to convince Congress to cut a deal.
With the click of a mouse, hundreds of thousands of federal workers can print out pre-designed protest signs reading,"Stop the Shutdown,""Fund the Government" or"Congress, Do your job so I can do mine!"American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO
With just days until a federal government shutdown, which would furlough and stop paychecks to federal employees nationwide, the major federal government employee unions are mobilizing to convince Congress to cut a deal and end the impasse. They're organizing meetings and educational seminars for their members and conducting media campaigns.
On Monday, the National Treasury Employees Union released a report stating the shutdown would impact thousands of federal workers in every U.S. congressional district:"At least 2,600 civilian federal employees live in every congressional district. The vast majority — 96% of the districts — have more than 4,000 civilian federal employees."
But many of the letters lawmakers receive around a shutdown are personal. Rep. Don Beyer, Democrat of Virginia, has released and posted some of the letters he received during the weeks-long 2018 federal shutdown. One said,"We recently found out that we are expecting a second child. At a time that we should be making every effort to save money, instead we are terrified about how we will pay our rent next month.
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