re: Back pay for workers affected by the shutdown?

Essential employee here. All leave was canceled and we are told to go to work. We can stay out, but no garuntee we’ll get paid for it. Probably will, though.
Our young folks training in OKC had to pack up and come back to the facility. All training canceled.
We’ll be working next week and not getting paid until this is over. I see this one going several weeks.
My gripe is that if I am required to work, pay me. I’m not moving all these airplanes around for shits and giggles. I and my co-workers bust our arse to move 42 million passengers around during this holiday season. Give me my check on time.
Pathetic to have people with young kids working Christmas morning and them not knowing when their paycheck will arrive.