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Trump Denies Thousands of Air Traffic Controllers $10K Bonus (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Donald Trump has snubbed thousands of air traffic controllers and technicians who kept the skies safe during the longest government shutdown in history, union officials told Axios.

Only 776, or seven percent, of the roughly 11,000 air traffic controllers and technicians who worked through the 43-day government shutdown will get a $10,000 bonus.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy described the “perfect attendance” bonus on X as a Santa moment, apparently ignoring that most workers were gift-less.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd like to see how many of these air traffic controllers voted republican and supported Trump.

As counter intuitive as it sounds ... I'd also like to see how of them still want to support the Republicans and Trump.

I'm as pro union as any socially minded supporter but you'd be surprised at the number of union people who support and fight for their union but routinely personally vote for political parties their unions fight against.

In all these Trump headlines, I start to see more and more how the political parties and personalities are only part of the problem .... the other part of the problem is the American people who look at all this as normal.