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Has it struck you as odd that certain "essential" yet unpaid gov't workers haven't gone on strike?
Essential government workers:
Though I understand why some essential government workers may not strike, a huge bloc of them, most notably TSA airport workers and/or air traffic controllers, should have gone on strike on Jan. 4, 2019. Why that group of government employees?
The US is democracy and this seems like one of the times when "the people," not their elected representatives, need to take the lead to achieve a specific outcomes.
Essential government workers:
- Federal government employees who've been deemed important enough that they haven't been furloughed, but who yet aren't getting paid.
Though I understand why some essential government workers may not strike, a huge bloc of them, most notably TSA airport workers and/or air traffic controllers, should have gone on strike on Jan. 4, 2019. Why that group of government employees?
- Because planes don't fly without them.
- Because there are far too many of them and their training lag times too long to rapidly replace them to get planes flying again.
- They can literally shutdown US air transportation -- passenger and freight -- for a couple months at least.
- Because they are "regular" people whose roles position them to have pivotal, unignorable impacts. America's commercial sectors -- anyone who needs to fly; anyone who ships stuff on FedEx, UPS, etc. -- would lay massive pressure on Trump and Congress to get the government up and running again.
The US is democracy and this seems like one of the times when "the people," not their elected representatives, need to take the lead to achieve a specific outcomes.