• blunder [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    20 days ago

    Air traffic controllers are government employees and are considered essential, so they have to keep working, but are doing so without pay.

    What in the fuck??? What are they going to do, imprison them? Hey take this job, you can never leave it???

    • barrbaric [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      They went on strike under Reagan and he fired every single one, getting scabs, retirees, and military ATCs to take their places. So yeah ATC work is pretty fucked and will continue to be so until something breaks.

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        I remember that actually but I guess I was just naive enough to think that “no one is in the tower” was some kind of red line that wouldn’t be crossed

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      They’ll have USAF ATC come in if required. Like during the strike in 80s when Reagan took the union out back and gave it the ol’ “think about the rabbits” treatment.