Federal Worker Union Call to End Shutdown Resisted by Democrats

Key Senate Democrats resisted a call by the country’s largest union of federal workers to shelve their health care demands and reopen the US government, signaling no end in sight for the ongoing shutdown.

The American Federation of Government Employees earlier Monday urged Democrats to go along with Republicans’ long-standing demand that they accept a short-term funding package similar to one that the GOP-controlled House passed in September.