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- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
Overtaxed and unpaid air traffic controllers are resigning “every day” due to stress from the government shutdown.
“Controllers are resigning every day now because of the prolonged nature of the shutdown,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, told CNN.
“We hadn’t seen that before. And we’re also 400 controllers short—shorter than we were in the 2019 shutdown.”
Air traffic controllers are federal workers, which means they are part of the approximately 730,000 federal employees working without pay since the shutdown began on Oct. 1.
He’s not paying the military either, not sure how well that’ll work for him.
As well as it did in the Revolutionary War, I’m sure!
Didn’t some billionaire step up to pay the military? Because that sounds like such a great fucking idea. What could go wrong.
Tried, I believe it it got cancelled because it’s illegal
Even if it did go through I think the math on it worked out to $100 a service member, so like maybe half a day of work.