Airline workers 'cannot even calculate' risk from Trump shutdown

By Dan Desai Martin - January 24, 2019

Unions representing 131,000 airline workers send a stark warning about airline safety as the Trump shutdown shows no signs of ending.

Airline safety is “deteriorating by the day” because of the Trump shutdown, warns a terrifying statement from unions representing 131,000 airline workers. As the government shutdown drags into its second month, workers in the airline industry can’t even imagine the amount of risk Trump’s actions are causing.

“In our risk averse industry, we cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play,” presidents of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) said in a statement. The situation is so dire that the group said it can’t “predict the point at which the entire system will break.”

“It is unprecedented,” they added.

This letter follows upon an early January letter from the ALPA to Trump warning the shutdown was “adversely affecting the safety, security and efficiency of our national airspace system.”

The new statement picks up on the same theme, expressing a “growing concern for the safety and security of our members, our airlines, and the traveling public due to the government shutdown.”

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We are warning you, the paying public, we know how this works it's time to call your senators in our local district since the phones are probably packed at the senate, this is not some game of chicken........................to see who blinks first..................for those of us that have worked or been apart of this field, we are trying to tell you something......................
And this BS that they just tried to pass the bill that they voted on last December and it failed...................say's that they were full of right wing shit..................they wanted to gut spending in February............because now they have a debt ceiling debate coming up.................and this BS will effect the bond market and our credit rating..............