Washington Post- While many federal workers go without pay and the
government is partially shut down, hundreds of senior Trump political
appointees are poised to receive annual raises of about $10,000 a year.
The
pay raises for Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, top
administrators and even Vice President Pence are scheduled to go into
effect beginning Jan. 5 without legislation to stop them, according to
documents issued by the Office of Personnel Management and experts in
federal pay.
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In most professional ballet companies, the dancers are laid off at the end of the year for 2-3 weeks after the Nutcracker run. The company will let the dancers know who will be rehired, generally with enough warning the ones not rehired have found a new company before the lay off and will start with the new company in January. This makes the dancers eligible for unemployment for those 2-3 weeks. If a ballet company, most of which survive on a shoe string can figure out that laying the dancers off for 2-3 weeks protects the dancers from financial disruption through unemployment, why the hell can't the federal government do the same for its own employees.
How is this any different that what Corporations have been doing to Labor ever since the 1980s?
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