AFGE Workers With Airline Workers & Labor Protest At Oakland Airport End The Shutdowns

AFGE workers with other airline workers and hundreds of other workers protested at the Oakland airport on January 25, 2019 the Trump governmen shutdown. Workers from TSA, the Coast Guard and EPA talked about how they are being effected and are being forced to work without pay. Many workers called it slave labor. Also airline workers talked about the danger to health and safety and the union busting tactics of this government shutdown. As the protest was taking place the Trump government announced that he would re-open the government but only open it for a three week extension until February 15, 2019 when if they did not agree to a wall he would take other actions.

Yvonne Williams, president of ATU 192 and president of the Alameda Labor Council also threatened that if the shutdowns did not end, labor would have a "real shutdown" of the country.

Additional media:

Unions Representing Air Traffic Controllers, Pilots, and Flight Attendants Just Issued an Incredibly Dire Warning
“We cannot even calculate the level of risk currently at play.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/shutdown-air-travel-statement-unions-warning/

CWA-AFA President Urges General Strike
https://www.afacwa.org/fierce_urgency_of_now

General Strike Needed To Defend King's Dream
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/20/a-call-for-a-national-general-strike-part-2-times-up-for-deferring-mlks-dream/

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http://www.laborvideo.org