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Trump's Budget is "A Kick in the Teeth"
With the budget fight over the border wall concluded for now, Trump has decided to look ahead. To do this, he has released his proposed budget for 2020. As expected, the budget provides little money...
Government Workers Still Feeling the Shutdown
Many federal employees are still facing lingering back pay issues a full 11 days after the end of the longest ever government shutdown, adding to their anguish as they face the prospect of yet...
Mike: People Impacted by Trump's Government Lockout
Day 18 of the government shutdown is here and over 800,000 federal workers are locked out or are being forced to work without pay. One such employee is Mike Gayzagian who is a TSA agent and therefore...
Can Locked Out Federal Workers Apply for Unemployment?
With the government shutdown and no end in sight, federal workers who are locked out or who are being forced to work without pay will miss their first paychecks on Friday, January 11th. As we...
Steve: People Impacted by Trump's Government Lockout
Yesterday we reported on a TSA agent who was required to go to work during the shutdown, even though he wasn’t getting paid. Today we spoke to Steve Calder, who works for the EPA in Boston and...
Dave: People Impacted by Trump's Government Lockout
We tend to forget that the 800,000 who are affected by this lockout didn’t ask for this and they are real people. The government shutdown is entering its third week. This Friday will be the...
Government Employees Sue Trump Over Shutdown
Thanks to the temper tantrum that Trump is throwing over the Republican Congress refusing to fund his stupid wall, 380,000 federal employees have been locked out of their jobs and another 420,000...
Equal Pay for Equal Work at the VA
For the last four years, the union representing workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System has been fighting for their female physicians to...
Trump's Betsy DeVos in Hot Water Over Workplace Rights
Three U.S. Senators are calling on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to stop denying workplace rights and protections to nearly 4,000 Department of Education employees who are represented by the...
Federal Court to Trump: You Broke Labor Law
In a landmark decision, a federal judge has ruled that President Trump violated the U.S. Constitution and laws providing checks and balances in the federal government by attempting to deny more than...