Federal workers urge congressional lawmakers to reverse job cuts
Source: CBS News
February 25, 2025 / 7:04 PM EST
Washington — As federal workers continue to face massive layoffs, some are bringing their job search to Capitol Hill. The newly-formed Fork Off Coalition, composed of recently laid off government employees, held a job fair and staged a sit-in at a Senate building Tuesday. They targeted the offices of Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Tammy Duckworth and Lindsey Graham.
Organizers have been holding informal training sessions with terminated workers over several days on the Hill. Representing an alphabet soup of agencies with various levels of tenure, each worker is paired up and dispatched to a Senator's office to share their stories.
One worker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution, had been placed on administrative leave from the Administration for Children and Families, which is housed under the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency oversees programs ranging from Head Start to the Office of Refugee Resettlement. She brought her sixth-grade son to walk the halls of Congress with her, calling it a "civics lesson."
"I have three children and I had to sit them down and tell them that I had been fired illegally from my job," she explained. "And both my son and my daughter were asking, like, what are we going to do? Will we be able to buy things?" Wiping away tears, she said they wanted to lend a hand. "My son offered to sell his, like, card collection to like, make money for our family," she recalled. "My daughter has a birthday next month and she was like, 'Mom, you don't have to buy me any presents, like, if we need to save money.'"
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-workers-urge-congressional-lawmakers-to-reverse-job-cuts/
= new reply since forum marked as read
