Two shut downs under Reagan, one under Bush, two under Clinton. The employees always have their pay made up. There's no reason that the democrat controlled Senate and White House will not deliver to their unions this time.
48? You ought to at least be old enough to remember the Clinton shutdowns.
Your agency is AFGE (AFL-CIO) rather than an independent union, isn't it?
It doesn’t matter if I remember the shutdowns under Clinton, or Reagan for that matter. This shutdown is a completely different ball game, and this time federal government employees are being specifically targeted. All we have been told from Day 1 is that if we shut down, there will be NO back pay. Past shutdowns actually cost more money than was saved, so the measures being negotiated are such that they want a shut down that actually shows effectiveness.
We are AFGE, but they only listen to feedback from Baltimore and DC, and seldom give consideration to conditions in field and branch offices. The union reps have been fairly innocuous in DHHS.