Fwd: Government Shutdown - temporary funding deal (thank you!)

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From: Chip Shannon <cshannon@aflcio.org>
Date: Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 4:36 PM
Subject: Government Shutdown - temporary funding deal (thank you!)
To: John Case <jcase4218@gmail.com>

To:     All State Federations and Area and Central Labor Councils

Re:    Government Shutdown - temporary funding deal

THANK YOU! Because of your work - including nearly 25,000 calls to senate offices and almost 50 collective actions held just today - the White House just announced a deal to temporarily re-open the government. 

Find President Trumka's statement at this link.

This is what we know about the deal:

• votes in the Senate, then the House, may happen as early as this evening,
• the deal will fund the government through February 15,
• federal employees will receive backpay, but
• there are currently no solutions for the hundreds of thousands of federal contractors who have lost a month of work.

For now, we encourage you to take the following actions:

• please work to keep pressure on the White House and Congress to pass a permanent funding bill by February 15
• please continue to circulate our toll-free hotlines (Senate: 866-803-8830 & House: 855-976-9914) so union members can contact their members of Congress
• please call the 52 senators who voted yesterday for the clean bill to re-open the government
• continue to use our toolkit (go.aflcio.org/ShutdownToolkit) for social graphics, content and resources

In solidarity,

Chip

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Chip Shannon | AFL-CIO

Assistant Director | Political, Electoral & Issue Mobilization

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John Case
Harpers Ferry, WV

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