Page 17 - Contract Workers News Today

A months pay and deal with it. >> perhaps it was a shot in the dark for you, you were hoping you would get $5,000 for a go fund me account, come to find out you tripled that. how helpful has that been, you know, how much will you be leaning on that and for how long? >> right. i leaned on it heavily. i paid my rent for february so i can get ahead, in case this keeps going on and im not able to find another position right away. im thankful to those that donated. im very, very grateful for that, an...

Those furloughed workers hitting up handing out food supporting them through this shutdown. joining us now with more on the impact of folks. christina, good to see you. as always obviously youve got people on an individual level who are hurting. but then you had 800,000 people. thats more than the number of employees at amazon. they are not going to the movies. how long until this begins to affect the economy. you have to account for all of those contract workers. think of the restaurants that m...

Thats a perfectly good reason for him to want her here. >> some federal employees cant afford food anymore after a paycheck-free month, so today virginia senator mark warner popped up at a food bank to feed the furlough -ed. >> why would you hold the functions of the sea department customer garbage old folks who work at the smithsonians contract workers why would he old folks with people getting food stamps hostage when the dispute is the software security? i think the actions of this warehouse ...

For 800,000 federal workers, their paychecks are on hold, not to mention the contract workers and the millions of people affected by this shutdown. many of those people are being forced to drain their checking and savings accounts to stay afloat. among them is andrew robinson. he is a military veteran. he is currently working for. usda. and, andrew, you are joining us from missouri, and you are not getting paid. thank you for writing this op-ed and being with us. >> thank you. thank you for havi...

41,000 federal employees. hans, tell us not just what the government workers are telling you there, but local businesses, businesses in a town with that many federal workers and buildings that are closed down, they cant stay open. >> reporter: well, theyre seeing their sales decline. thats kind of what you would expect to happen when you have that many furloughed workers here who arent getting a paycheck. of course, you also have workers say at the t.s.a. who are going in and arent getting paid,...

Lawsuits will abound. meanwhile, back in the mainland, on main street, rather, i should say, over 800,000 federal employees, we know that we have contract workers who are impacted by this. fred, people are in a real crisis right now. we know that the great deal of the majority of folks who even consider themselves in the middle class, people live paycheck by paycheck. i believe the last stat i saw was 80% of americans in this country live paycheck to paycheck. so while america is talking about l...

Hurricane and wildfire victims. i want to get mark sczandy here. 21 full days of this government shutdown, now day 22. 800,000 american men and women, federal employees have not received paychecks, this is no longer just a blip caused by a president and the congress locking horns over budget and policy, its now hitting home. tell us how concerned you are today about the greater impact on the economy as this shutdown continues with no end in sight. >> there are hundreds of thousands of other wo...

Government contractors. people would work for companies hired by the u.s. government, and while its not clear how many of those are impacted by the shutdown, contract workers are less likely to get back pay or work at all. not included in that number, their family members, including their kids. thats millions and millions of people. families who wont have money to buy groceries, medicine or make their mortgage and car payments or pay their rent. the bills are piling up. and most of them missed t...

You that the new majority in the house of representatives will insist on seeing the report. obviously there may be some confidential provisions regarding grand jury testimony or classified information. but on the whole, the president -- excuse me, the public is entitled to see whats in this report. >> i want to turn to the shutdown now. weve just learned that the senate is officially adjourned until monday despite the fact that federal workers, contract workers, they are not being paid -- well, ...

Rippling. >> important point. 800,000 federal workers in this position, contract workers, and all of them live and pay other people for their services. so when the back pay comes, youve missed out on paying a bunch of people once that actually is a real hit to the economy. tom, thank you for your great reporting on this. >> its not like theyre staying home. they are going to work and doing their job and not getting paid any money to do t. >> joining us now is the man i mentioned the president of...