A group of employees who were terminated from the National Park Service last week are making plans to file class action lawsuits. The federal hiring freeze enacted via executive order by President Donald Trump is heavily impacting the Department of the Interior.
The department fired thousands of employees last week, and it could cause big problems for national parks. Olek Chmura was hired as a custodian with the NPS in Yosemite last year. Since then, he’s spent his time doing a very dirty job: cleaning up things like excrement and trash around the park.
"The last five days have been absolutely insane. The first couple days…I’ve never cried more in my entire life. I felt like my world was swept out from under my feet. Just feeling really hopeless and gutted," Chmura tells KTVU. Chmura earns just $40,000 dollars each year before taxes for the work he does. That pay doesn’t go very far in California. "I don’t make enough to live in nearby communities.
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