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In the face of an impending government shut-down, Good Jobs Nation, a workers? advocacy organization, has organized upwards of 200 federal government workers to strike today and has gathered over 250,000 signatures on a petition which will be presented to President Obama. The petition demands that the President issue an executive order guaranteeing a living wage for all federal workers. It is a strategy tailored for a Republican-controlled congress which opposes raising the minimum wage. Good Jobs Nation says that they would have the President enforce a living wage among all federal contractors, which would constitute approximately one-fifth of the U.S. workforce. Today?s strike is the second by the same organizers. The first took place on May 21 and was significantly smaller.