Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he understands the frustrations and worries of air traffic controllers who have to work without a paycheck during the government shutdown, but he and the union that represents controllers are also now emphasizing that calling out sick in protest could cost th
Unpaid work is slavery, every single air traffic controller should just walk away.
Watching the US aviation industry collapse as a result would be endlessly amusing.
Reagan did it in 1981 and it didn’t cause a collapse. 11000 air traffic controllers went on strike and Reagan fired all of them. This is arguably what started the decline of unions in the US.
It was fucked up then, and it would be even more fucked up now, but in reality the industry would move on pretty quickly. Hopefully the people would rise up in response, but I’m not holding my breath.
It nearly did cause a collapse and the industry has never recovered. ATC has been a critically understaffed industry since before you were born.
The people “rose up” during BLM protests for over a year in the streets. Systematic change? Nope. Black people any safer now? Nope. All those protests did was hold exactly ONE fucking cop accountable. That’s it. We’re fucked and I hate saying that. Still going to do my part, but it’s like the ship has been sinking since before I was even born…
We aren’t fucked until we’re dead, my friend. Fight until the end. Never make it easy for them.
Write on every inch of the toilet paper. They can’t have that. It’s ours.
“It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us”
I’m sure everyone would love that and would wholeheartedly support that decision. No blowback whatsoever.
If there’s blowback, blame the people causing the problem (elected Republicans), not the workers impacted by it.
Strikes and not showing up for unpaid work are meant to piss people off. People don’t change shit when they’re getting what they want already.
It’s really that simple.
In theory that could work, but when they all get fired, again, and replaced with military air traffic controllers, Trump will look like he saved the day.