Republicans refuse to pay the workers hurt most by Trump's shutdown

[turbinetree]

By Emily Singer - February 19, 2019

Republicans are refusing to authorize back pay for hundreds of thousands of federal contractors, many of them in the lowest paid jobs.

Republicans already inflicted pain on hundreds of thousands of federal workers when they recklessly allowed Trump to shut down the government for 35 days over Trump’s demand for an unpopular border wall that experts agree won’t do anything to keep Americans safe.

But now, they’re inflicting even more pain on federal contractors by refusing to offer them back pay for the weeks of work they missed through no fault of their own.

Those federal contractors — many of them lower-paid cafeteria workers or security guards — were excluded from the provisions that offered back pay to furloughed federal workers who worked directly for the U.S. government.

“I don’t think we can pay people who didn’t work, even through no fault of their own,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told Vox.

https://shareblue.com/republicans-refuse-back-pay-contract-workers/

John Cornyn should be voted out of office........................

Hey asshole, your fucking leader in the senate and the white house should not be paid, right along with you...........................you really are fucking dick, they were cleaning your shit stain out of the toilet bowl that you use .........................asshole .........................

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Seems to me there are some 111k Federal Employees

who were effected in Texas alone.

[ffr]

2. Maybe so they can appropriate it to build a few miles of the vanity wall.

[mr_lebowski]

3. How much you wanna f*****g BET that THEIR EMPLOYERS, the Lockheeds and KBR's of the world

Are still getting paid as if those workers had been there every day?

They have 'contracts' after all, to provide 'workers' ... and this was 'no fault of THEIR own', so, of course, the Contracting COMPANIES will still get paid.