Air traffic controllers have become the third federal employees union to sue the Trump administration over the partial government shutdown. “If not for the shutdown, NATCA members would have begun to receive direct deposit of their pay into their accounts as of this morning.”On Thursday, air traffic controllers missed their first paycheck since the shutdown began. The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 federal workers, filed its own lawsuit Jan. 8. The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, filed a lawsuit in December, days after the shutdown began. Both of those lawsuits allege that more than 400,000 federal employees are being illegally forced to work without pay.

Source: Huffington Post January 11, 2019 20:03 UTC