Yo, air traffic controllers still at work: if y'all have ever considered going on strike, now's the time.
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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Easier to quit; last time ATCs went on strike Reagan just fired them all
Would they still be able to replace the fired workers as quickly as they did in 1980?
What is quick? From what I remember reading, they didn't really get back to normal until the early 90s. I could be wrong, I saw this a while ago.
They still aren't back to the same staffing level.
The linked article says they were back up and running at 75% in days. They had started training replacements in preparation for the strike, then had scabs and people breaking the picket line due to the threat of firing, then brought in military ATCs to fill in blanks.
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Came here to say this.
"No OnE wAnTs To WoRk AnYmOrE" - guy firing a bunch of people without cause.
[Insert GFY meme]
Bloody hell!
Don't worry, Real World Boston cast member Sean Duffy is on the case.
RESIST!
Surprise Surprise Surprise (Gomer Pyle voice)
Just what the fuck did you think was gonna happen Elonia? Fucking idiot...
Leopard, meet face...
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This is intentional. They want to replace everything with their own shitty for-profit systems.
Which will be a disaster of epic proportion.
Yeah I'm sure they're just RARING to work for the most publicly toxic boss (that isn't even a boss) in the world...
What I wouldn't give to be able to say "Fuck You" to his face.
I'd conjure up the biggest, grossest lugie possible...
I misread that as luigi
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It's weird to see people all over the place mocking Elmo for this...
Like, he knows no one in their right mind would want to start federal service right now. They treat feds like shit, make wild cuts they know will effect actual essentials. Go on national news and the billion dollar social media websites they own to shit talk fed, even have the head of the DoD call federal workers lazy and a drain on the nation in a public memo for for some reason now comes with a video.
The entire thing isn't just designed to shrink the federal government, but to then replace it with contractors they "manage" and take a huge chunk of the wages from for the privilege of a job for less than feds got and zero worker protections.
Just lining their own pockets in a legal manner because "no one wants to be a fed".
Meanwhile 50% of the country cheers him on, and damn near the rest can't see more than two steps ahead.
Why the fuck haven't people started learning to plan ahead yet?
Or at least read a damn history book. Fascist aren't typically original.
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Most of them retire at or near the age they're legally required to retire, they cannot come back. He's either trying to ask for the people he fired to come back without looking like the moron most people see him for or too dumb to realize even that.
"Look, it's nobody's fault, and we don't know how this happened, but for unforeseeable reasons we have a shortage."
Narrator: It was forseen, they do know how it happened, and it was his fault.
Would love to see the rest of them strike and bring the entire air travel/transport network to its knees.
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Ah the move fast and break things doesn't work? I'm shocked, shocked!