(Chance of) Another Trump Shutdown, Airport Workers Ready Mass Protests in 80 Major Cities

[applegrove]

Gearing Up for Possibility of Another Trump Shutdown, Airport Workers Ready Mass Protests in 80 Major Cities

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/09/gearing-possibility-another-trump-shutdown-airport-workers-ready-mass-protests-80

by Jake Johnson at Common Dreams

"SNIP....

With congressional negotiators still working on a deal to keep the federal government open after the current stopgap funding measure expires on Friday, Feb. 15, airport workers are already planning mass protestsfor next Saturday in case the government shuts down again.

"We need people to fully understand what the issues are so that we can be prepared to respond potentially with withholding our service, if that's what it takes to stop a continuation of the shutdown." 
—Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants

Air traffic controllers and other airport employees were widely credited for creating the pressure that ended the longest shutdown in American history last month, and Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) president Sara Nelson told New York Magazineon Friday that workers are gearing up to mobilize if congressional negotiators fail to reach a deal—or if President Donald Trump unilaterally scuttles any agreement.

As New York Magazine's Sarah Jones reported, "Nelson says that the union will be out leafleting in airports in 80 major cities next week ahead of Saturday's demonstrations."

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[catrose]

1. Let's make it a general strike! We've got time to prepare.

[gopiscrap]

3. I agree

[applegrove]

2. Vice grip Trump between his rich jet setter friends and union people.

If he shuts down government he will piss of both.

[babylonsister]

5. There are already a lot of pissed off people out there. nt

[applegrove]

6. I know but attacking union sympathetic people in the Midwest and the rich

are both part of his base. Could happen

[Haggis for Breakfast]

15. Forget vice gripping him between his friends and the union people !!

Vice grip him in the balls.

[applegrove]

21. !!!

[bdamomma]

4. oh crap

he's a bastard and taking his temper tantrums on government worker again.

Again, don't look at southern border, look at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[elias7]

7. For god's sake, how fast can you build a wall in a national emergency?

He hasn't even submitted a plan for building the structure, yet he want $5.7 billion. No responsible budgeteer could approve that.

[TrogL]

14. The Berlin Wall was thrown up overnight

13 August 1961

[shanny]

22. oooohkayyy

compare and contrast the length of that wall with the length of the border. be sure to include the terrain.

[TrogL]

26. Oh, I know that but does Doofus?

He’s older than me so he should remember it going up. He likely doesn’t grasp that scaling (pun intended) is an issue.

[shanny]

27. you are no doubt correct

[liberal N proud]

8. The airports are the key

When the rich and Congress are inconvenienced they will put a stop to trumps BULLSHIT shutdowns

[Lifelong Protester]

9. The shutdown is going to happen again.

[rufus dog]

11. I will take that bet

The Orange Shit stain doesn't get it.

Enough of his Repuke Senators do though.

It won't happen, the repukes have a shit hand and tRump wants to go all in on a bluff, because he is stupid, if he does Nancy makes him look incredibly stupid.

The media and other repukes are talking up the bluff, trying to get Donnie anything to save face. He gets nothing!

So he can quietly let it go or make a huge scene, either way he will lose.

[groundloop]

18. Yep.... if he had a tenth of a brain he'd just quietly let this issue go away

But NOOOOOO..... Tiny doesn't let anything go away, and definitely not quietly.

[klook]

19. Going "all in on a bluff."

That’s Trump’s entire life, going all in on a bluff. The phrasing of your post expresses that succinctly. He’s got nothin’, but he relies on people believing his bullshit.

He’s managed to fool most of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. I look forward to the day he learns he can’t fool all the people all the time.

Actually, I don’t care if he learns that or not — he’s not capable of learning, obviously. I just want him forcibly retired so my nerves can come down from DEFCON 3 all the fucking time.

[Charlotte Little]

10. Good

Shut the airports down entirely. All planes grounded.

It will be a very short government shutdown if that happens.

[onecaliberal]

20. We need to shut down the country if that fuck wants to do this again. No planes, no trains.

No service except essentials

[Charlotte Little]

30. K&R

[Wellstone ruled]

12. And most of these folks voted

Independent third party and Trump.

[kimbutgar]

13. Shut the airports where the rich fly in and out in their private planes

Air traffic controllers will refuse to guide their private planes in.

[bdamomma]

16. hmm...

so the rich will suffer too. Good they need too.

[pangaia]

25. I do not believe any ATCer would selectively ever do that.

[ProudLib72]

17. K and F'ing R!!

[YOHABLO]

23. I'm just wondering if this is just AFA affiliated or will encompass other airlines?

I see where American A., Delta, S.West, and others are not part of their union.

[pangaia]

24. Dear airport workers. Bravo(a) to you all.

May I just say, PLEASE remember to express just whom is responsible for this.

It is NOT 'congress.' It is donald j trump and republicans.

Thank you..

[lindysalsagal]

28. Hope I get to fly this week! I have a trip planned!

It's ok if I'm late returning!

[shockey80]

29. That's what I called for during the shutdown.

Walkout, call out, protest, don't go to work. Shut down every fucking thing. Shut down the airports, IRS, etc.

The federal workers need to teach everyone a lesson. A lesson on how Americans fight when their president, government attacks them.