Air traffic controllers union sues Trump administration over frozen pay during shutdown

CNBC ^ | 11 JAN 19 | Leslie Josephs | @lesliejosephs

[DCBryan1]

The union representing the United States' air traffic controllers is suing the Trump administration over pay that's frozen as part of the partial government shutdown.

The Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic controllers are among the 420,000 federal employees who have been deemed essential and have been ordered to work without pay during the shutdown, which began on Dec. 22 due to an impasse over funding for a wall along the U.S. southern border.

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[DCBryan1]

•The union representing air traffic controllers sues President Trump over shutdown.
•Air traffic controllers have been deemed essential government workers and are showing up without pay.
•The government shutdown started Dec. 22 and is one of the longest in history.

[DCBryan1]

FIRE THEM ALL! Bring back the golden days of RVs and roat trips!

[Kickass Conservative]

Why aren’t they suing the DNC?

[DCBryan1]

Replace union workers with white male conservatives!

[ConservativeMind]

Fire at least 13,000 and beat the number Reagan fired.

Records are made to be broken!

[rktman]

Denied. Call the chukalosi central control..

[rktman]

Reaganize them? Different thing.

[Amendment10]

Are union members paid when they go on strike?

[JoSixChip]

Fine, send them home and bring in the national guard to do security temporarily. Then bring in civilian companies to do it. It’s time for government to shrink.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Fire ‘em all! Reagan did!

[Tenacious 1]

I thought Reagan fixed this.

[blueunicorn6]

They should sue the Democrat Party.

They’ve got lots of money.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives (except 0bamacare).

Sue Nazi Pelosi, she’s speaker of the House.

5.56mm

[Buckeye McFrog]

Are union members paid when they go on strike?

Generally no. Some unions maintain strike funds that divvy out small payments to help tide them over.

I've spoken to older women around here who remember their union husbands going on strike. They say that no matter how good the settlement turned out to be you never really recovered from the lost paychecks.

[Tenacious 1]

I am not buying the “without pay” part. Watch for the correction on that. If “without pay” were a thing, then why not military and TSA and FBI “without pay”.

This is either a bureaucratic snafu or and engineered propaganda lie.

[NorthMountain]

Military is already funded. FBI and TSA are “shut down”.

[Delta 21]

Will they ever learn?

[DoughtyOne]

I believe his controllers walked off the job.

[MichaelCorleone]

Believe it or not they get unemployment benefits. At least in the communist blue states.

Last I heard anyway.

[Jayster]

I am retired ATC.

Got my paycheck