Coast Guard service member families hitting the food bank.
Federal Prison guards and workers are also going unpaid.
Border guards. Air traffic controllers. Meat inspectors.
Coast Guard service member families hitting the food bank.
Federal Prison guards and workers are also going unpaid.
Border guards. Air traffic controllers. Meat inspectors.
They will all get paid, it is just being deferred. Enough of this “they are working for free” nonsense. I get paid twice a month, so am I working for free the other 28-29 days?
Virtually every government related credit union had a furlough related loan program at a real discount.
Agree, it sucks for now, but they are the only ones left in the country with a real pension; the rest of us have 401K’s, (How long will i live / amount in my 401k).
They have tremendous health and other benefits. They generally get paid more than their private sector counterparts for the same jobs.
Listen, what they do is admirable and tremendous. But, financially, they know what they signed up for and, over the long run, have it far better than similarly skilled private sector employees.
Service providing contractors to the government are not working, are not furloughed, are not getting paid, nor will they ever recoup the time they missed because of the shutdown.
Service providers do things like Building Maintenance, building management, grounds & Public Works, utilities, and a myriad of other jobs that are infrastructure related to government operations. I know several and they’re stretching it kind of thin right now but they do want a wall.