Air traffic controllers will miss their biweekly paycheck, which would have gone out on Oct. 28, as the government shutdown continues.
It marks the first time during the shutdown — now in its 27th day — that controllers will go without a full paycheck.
Air traffic controllers are classified as essential employees, meaning they are required to report to work during a shutdown. However, officials say sick calls have noticeably increased in recent days.
if they don’t show up, what happens? They’re fired?
Now an air traffic controller strike would get their attention real fucking quick
Unless they pull a Reagan again.
Sure, but who would accept being trained for no pay and not knowing when they will be paid?!
The last time this happened the forced the military to take over duties.
Would the military air traffic controllers be paid during a shut down?
Which would be really convenient timing.
Might make the Venezuelan invasion a boondoggle
Air traffic controllers stretched thin, take side jobs amid shutdown
“Air traffic controllers have called and said, ‘I’ve picked up a side job. I go to my primary job on a day, an evening or a midnight shift. And when I complete that shift, I now go to a secondary job. I’m driving for Uber. I’m doing DoorDash. I’m doing Instacart.’ This job is hard enough,” Daniels said.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) said the missed paycheck “needlessly adds more stress to an already difficult job” for air traffic controllers.
“Controllers should never have to wonder where they will find money to pay their mortgage or put food on the table,” Larsen said.
