Union leaders representing hundreds of thousands of workers are calling on Congress to end the government shutdown, which stretched into the eighth day Wednesday.
“Federal employees, a third of whom are veterans, are patriotic Americans who provide essential services to communities across the country,” the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 820,000 federal and D.C. government workers, said in a news release.
“These employees should be able to do their jobs free of political interference. Instead, they are being forced to either work without pay or stay off the job without pay for as long as this shutdown continues.”
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