Census union employees remain unaware of latest developments. ;)
Census union employees remain unaware of latest developments. ;)
Gee, what a shocker.
If they apply for unemployment and get that and back pay, do they get to keep both?
Yep, I guess furloughs don’t save money once the {expletives} in government turn them into paid vacations. I’d like to get me some of that action.
They just are not “getting it”, and they won’t until people are starving and killing each other for food.
So then the Republican House caves and the federal employees get paid vacations —
What I’d give for a job that furloughed me, couldn’t fire me, and then paid me all the back pay after the furlough ended. Instead I work for companies that can fire me at will. And they do it, too, when business conditions turn tough.
John Edwards was right, there are “two Americas.”
Census “UNION” what the hell? AFSCME? AFGE assumedly.
Of course, there should not be any federal job or agency that is unionized, or else the same rules should apply— no work, no pay, regardless who shuts down. They have civil service jobs for.... Life for Lord’s sake.
So...we’re all supposed to feel sorry for a bunch of federal employees being given paid vacations? My heart pumps p**s for them.
” The measure now moves to the Senate, where it is expected to pass. “
Soon as the Senate starts to pass any of these piece-meal bills it makes it even harder for them to not pass subsequent bills of this type.
This, and the Kenyan’s furious demeanor at his little fit-throwing speeches look like cracks in the dem’s resolve
to me.
Republicans are very accustomed to criticism. The left..not so much.
Well...on the positive side the door has been pried open...
Where do I go to get my back pay?
Government workers = pampered class and I'm SICK OF IT!!!
It’s disappointing they didn’t add a rider to open all the parks and forests (and the ocean they closed).
Retroactive pay is criminal!!!
There’s no shutdown, just a paid vacation.
Every member of the House should lose their job!
If they are going to get back-pay, then they should have an appropriate number of vacation days taken away from their account.
So glad that they could look after constituency number one: the federal worker.
And what, they’ll pull out money to pay all the concession operators who have lost money from the shutdown? Will they pay the furloughed employees of those private enterprises? What about those that service federal contracts but aren’t directly paid by the feds? Will they get their money?
Two Americas is right. We are all equal, but some are just a tiny bit more equal.
Could be good strategery at work. Here’s the optimistic view:
If the House refuses this, they look like the Barrycader, pain-inducers.
Also, this will enrage the public. The public may insist they go back to work for the money, which only pressures the Senate to approve mini-CRs that the House sends (w/o 0bamacare).
What is worse:
Paying them to do nothing?
Or paying them to cause trouble for Americans?
I think we come out ahead with these paid vacations.
Not all. Intermittent employees are just screwed.
so when do they go back to work?
For a while I was beginning to believe the Republicans were serious about cutting back on government costs. Now it shows that they are just posturing in a political frame of reference. If they had tied the delayed payment to keeping only necessary functions I would have a much better feeling about their actions. I am hoping and wondering if there is a Cruz or Lee who can step forward and keep the ‘tea party’ going.