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Union Fury After Trump Suggests Not All Furloughed Workers Will Receive Shutdown Pay
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 Oct. 8, 2025 | FEDERAL WORKERS | The American labor movement erupted in outrage yesterday after President Trump appeared to go back on the government’s promises to provide back pay to all of the estimated 750,000 furloughed federal workers when the government shutdown ends. Last month, as a shutdown loomed, the US Office of Personnel Management, an independent government agency that oversees the country’s civil service, published guidance for federal agencies stating definitively that “after the lapse in appropriations has ended, employees who were furloughed as a result of the lapse will receive retroactive pay for those furlough periods.” This follows a federal law, the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act signed by Trump during the last shutdown in 2019, which requires that furloughed employees “shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations.” But the Trump administration has begun to walk back that promise. Common Dreams
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