Union efforts during shutdown
10-17-2025 | 07:48 AM
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New controllers are making less than 100k and are now living without a paycheck. Cant we fund a no interest loan to get them through this BS shutdown and build some goodwill. Ive got a few grand laying around that will probably mean alot to the guys getting hit the hardest. ALPA could facilitate this with the ATC union.
10-17-2025 | 08:09 AM
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New controllers are making less than 100k and are now living without a paycheck. Cant we fund a no interest loan to get them through this BS shutdown and build some goodwill. Ive got a few grand laying around that will probably mean alot to the guys getting hit the hardest. ALPA could facilitate this with the ATC union.
10-17-2025 | 01:31 PM
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New controllers are making less than 100k and are now living without a paycheck. Cant we fund a no interest loan to get them through this BS shutdown and build some goodwill. Ive got a few grand laying around that will probably mean alot to the guys getting hit the hardest. ALPA could facilitate this with the ATC union.
10-17-2025 | 03:31 PM
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While not commonly known, I have it on unimpeachable authority that US airline pilots showed up at area control centers during the 1981 strike to help the [admittedly] scab controllers out in any way they could. The politics are convoluted, but ultimately, pilots saw their own fortunes at risk.
"Tearing strips" was the main utility for pilots on the jobsite.
We're not there yet. A fund to stop-gap controller paychecks seems unwieldy. After all, they will eventually get deferred compensation, no one disputes that.
So far it's been 2 weeks of shutdown. Missing paychecks are probably a week or so in.
At the very least, a simple "thank you for all you do and showing up, we appreciate the heck out of you" on the radio when not congested seems appropriate.
"Tearing strips" was the main utility for pilots on the jobsite.
We're not there yet. A fund to stop-gap controller paychecks seems unwieldy. After all, they will eventually get deferred compensation, no one disputes that.
So far it's been 2 weeks of shutdown. Missing paychecks are probably a week or so in.
At the very least, a simple "thank you for all you do and showing up, we appreciate the heck out of you" on the radio when not congested seems appropriate.
10-17-2025 | 06:02 PM
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While not commonly known, I have it on unimpeachable authority that US airline pilots showed up at area control centers during the 1981 strike to help the [admittedly] scab controllers out in any way they could. The politics are convoluted, but ultimately, pilots saw their own fortunes at risk.
"Tearing strips" was the main utility for pilots on the jobsite.
We're not there yet. A fund to stop-gap controller paychecks seems unwieldy. After all, they will eventually get deferred compensation, no one disputes that.
So far it's been 2 weeks of shutdown. Missing paychecks are probably a week or so in.
At the very least, a simple "thank you for all you do and showing up, we appreciate the heck out of you" on the radio when not congested seems appropriate.
"Tearing strips" was the main utility for pilots on the jobsite.
We're not there yet. A fund to stop-gap controller paychecks seems unwieldy. After all, they will eventually get deferred compensation, no one disputes that.
So far it's been 2 weeks of shutdown. Missing paychecks are probably a week or so in.
At the very least, a simple "thank you for all you do and showing up, we appreciate the heck out of you" on the radio when not congested seems appropriate.
10-18-2025 | 04:19 AM
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Which means they couldn't pay how many bills? Seems money was found for the military and federal law enforcement, I'd argue protecting life is better served by paying controllers since we aren't at war and have we have state and local law enforcement.
10-19-2025 | 10:27 AM
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