Trump doesn't believe in paychecks. Look at how the "successful businessman" has stiffed contractors and workers for decades.
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And suppliers, and lenders, and customers... My favorite Trump-will-stiff-you story is the one about the time the Trump Org. was running so many lawsuits resulting from this behaviour that the corporate legal department couldn't handle them all, and farmed some of them out... >
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...to outside lawyers. One of them won him his case, submitted a moderate (for a lawyer) bill of a couple thousand dollars and, you guessed it. The guy finally had to take Orange Julius Caesar to *small claims court* to get his money.
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workers can’t afford to work without a paycheck, common sense says
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I’m starting to believe that articles like the one about the 25yo making 100k a year aren’t for us as much as they’re for people in the dc bubble.
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Not mentioned in the article is that many of screeners are actually employees of contractors, who could be paid but it may put the employer in a cash bind.
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Even worse for contractors is that they don't get paid back lost wages after the shutdown ends.
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It is also a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act for a private employer to force people to work unpaid.
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Also too, does anyone think the DHS-funded, privately run immigrant concentration camps would be running if their profiteer operators didn’t think they’d get paid eventually? Doubtful.
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Why would someone go to work knowing there is no paycheck?
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Guess you've never met military folks in previous shutdowns that didn't get paid yet still manned their post.
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They still have food and a place to live
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They don't all live on base getting military chow, and it affected reserve components as well.
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Just go on strike. The shutdown will be over in a couple hours.
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Federal employees cant strike...thanks Regan
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If they strike, who's going to stop them? You can't make them work and you can't train replacements overnight.
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The FBI will arrest them. Yep. All of them. Unpaid FBI agents
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For the crime of deciding not to work. Shut down air travel for a day and this thing ends and doesn't come back.
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They'll be fired if they strike. Thanks Reagan!
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Who's going to fire them? Trump doesn't have the guts to actually inconvenience people by shutting down airports.
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There is that.
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