Trump told lawmakers he prefers the word 'strike'

[Rogue Valley]

Trump told lawmakers he prefers the word 'strike' to government shutdown, sources say

1/5/19
President Donald Trump told congressional leaders during a meeting Friday to try to negotiate terms to re-open the government and that he preferred the word "strike" in describing the ongoing government shutdown, a person familiar with the meeting and a Democratic aide told CNN. Trump also kicked off the meeting with a profanity laden opening salvo lasting more than 15 minutes in which he made it clear that he had no plans to move on from his demand for $5.6 billion to build a border wall, according to a person familiar with the meeting. The White House did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment. According to two people familiar with what happened inside the room, Trump told the leaders his hard number was $5.6 billion for border wall funding, and he wasn't willing to negotiate. That was when he made clear that it didn't matter how long it would take -- months, years, "even to the election," according to those people. "Absolutely I said that," Trump affirmed from the Rose Garden shortly afterward. "I don't think it will, but I'm prepared."

While I can understand your political desperation for labeling your government shutdown a "strike" Mr. Trump, I can't allow you to get away with such crass disinformation. A strike is a labor action in which workers voluntarily walk off the job until their employment demands are met or a mutual compromise is agreed to. A government shutdown is not a labor "strike", nor does it resemble a labor strike in any meaningful way. The federal workers are "furloughed" Mr. Trump because you refuse to sign government funding legislation until your wall funding demand is met. To put it even more succinctly Mr. Trump, you are holding govt. worker paychecks hostage until you get your way. In all candor, you are extorting your own federal workforce. And no, you can't steal the word "strike" to paper-over your own inflexible demands.

So don't give us this song-and-dance hooey that a strike is occurring. The federal workers are furloughed due to your own intransigence.....

“I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down.”

Related: Trump Suggests Government Shutdown Could Last for ‘Months or Even Years’

 

[Mr Person]

He absolutely would be the kind of employer to tell employees they're on administrative unpaid leave, then claim to the press that they're striking.

I say again: he is utter swine (no offense to any actual pigs that might read this).

 

[Manc Skipper]

Did he mean strike as in his strike against government employees?

 

[bluesmoke]

Trump told lawmakers he prefers the word 'strike' to government shutdown, sources say

While I can understand your political desperation for labeling your government shutdown a "strike" Mr. Trump, I can't allow you to get away with such crass disinformation. A strike is a labor action in which workers voluntarily walk off the job until their employment demands are met or a mutual compromise is agreed to. A government shutdown is not a labor "strike", nor does it resemble a labor strike in any meaningful way. The federal workers are "furloughed" Mr. Trump because you refuse to sign government funding legislation until your wall funding demand is met. To put it even more succinctly Mr. Trump, you are holding govt. worker paychecks hostage until you get your way. In all candor, you are extorting your own federal workforce. And no, you can't steal the word "strike" to paper-over your own inflexible demands.

So don't give us this song-and-dance hooey that a strike is occurring. The federal workers are furloughed due to your own intransigence.....



Related: Trump Suggests Government Shutdown Could Last for ‘Months or Even Years’

Trump pisses on everything so as to put his own stamp on all that exists and arises.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Trump Wants To Call The Shutdown A ‘Strike.’ He Has It Completely Backward.

If anything, the president should call it a lockout.

“I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down.”