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Trump threatens to ‘dock’ already unpaid air traffic controllers who call out sick: ‘I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU’
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2025
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not an air traffic controller but I assume it's a pretty high demand job. would be a shame if all controllers started a general strike and froze air traffic for weeks just to prove a point.
not like this administration could entice anyone outside the US to work in this shithole anyway.
what's the worst they'll do? chain you to the desk and make you work at gunpoi-- yeah... they'd probably do that...
They went on strike in the Reagan era and then got fired and replaced.
They didn't just get fired.
They were black listed from ALL federal government positions. That includes being an Air Traffic Controller. Now Bill Clinton eventually lifted the ban but that took 12 years and even then - very very few were hired back.