About half of the approximately 500 Internal Revenue Service employees in Western Pennsylvania have been furloughed and walk-in offices from Erie to Uniontown are shuttered because of the federal government shutdown, the union representing those employees said Thursday.
The news comes as the IRS said on Wednesday it planned to furlough nearly half of its employees nationwide as the federal government remains unfunded.
Elizabeth McPeak, first vice president of National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 34, which represents IRS employees across Western Pennsylvania, said furloughed staff were told to pick up and go home midday Wednesday…