About 15,000 federal workers in Massachusetts were back on the job yesterday and the state's national parks reopened after the 16-day partial government shutdown came to an end — at least for now.
"Hopefully, we won't be doing this again in January," said John Buckley, regional vice president of Boston-based Local 2264 of the American Federation of Government Employees.
The state's federal employees were notified electronically and by phone to return to their posts and many were relieved to be back on the job. Around the state, national parks began reopening as staff returned.
Sean Hennessey, spokesman for Boston National Historic Park, whose destinations include the Bunker Hill Monument and the USS Constitution, both in Charlestown, and the Great Hall at Faneuil Hall, said they turned away 55,000 people in the first 10 days of the shutdown alone, while 85 of 100 employees were furloughed.
"There were ancillary effects as well," Hennessey said of the lost business. "It was very hard on our gateway communities: car rentals, hotels, trolley tours, retirees who made long-range plans ... Those visits were all impacted because they'd show up and find we were closed."
Furloughed workers will be compensated for the time they were away from their offices, but two weeks without a job or a paycheck left real scars.
"It's devastating, especially for the people who are working check to check," Buckley said. "No one's prepared for this type of thing. By no means was it a vacation. It was uneasy all the time. It was really disturbing."
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