Government Executive: With less than one week until the deadline for Congress to fund federal agencies, a federal employee union vowed on Thursday not to take a shutdown “lying down.”
The American Federation of Government Employees is putting into motion its plan to organize members into rallying against a shutdown, according to president J. David Cox, which would at best delay pay for all federal employees. Cox told reporters in a conference call Thursday afternoon his primary lesson from the 16-day shutdown in 2012 was to “mobilize, mobilize, mobilize.”
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