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I imagine air traffic controllers spontaneously deciding to strike _here and now_ without prior warning would be quite dangerous. But if an air traffic control

I imagine air traffic controllers spontaneously deciding to strike _here and now_ without prior warning would be quite dangerous. But if an air traffic controller strike is announced, say, 24 hours beforehand, it can't be reasonably argued to be a public safety hazard.

hpoe 6y ago
Counterpoint: My wife has a medication that has short shelf life and isn't widely distributed so it needs to be flown via air. Airplanes stop flying my wife no longer gets her medicine, she now dead.
- AdrianB1 6y ago
  That is true, but you cannot force someone to fly it regularly to her. The miracles of modern medicine allow people to live when this would not have happened 100 years ago, but cannot guarantee that. Take it as a gift, not as a given.
- nickkell 6y ago
  It sounds like quite an important job then. Maybe you should join in and pressure the bosses to give them the raise they need
  - kepler1 6y ago
    Some great logic there. Put it on the one party to give into anything the other wants, because they're said to be important. Does it work the other way in your mind too? If we all agreed that air traffic or say, Amazon, were a critical resource and has to run efficiently and for the country's benefit, not individuals, that means that they get to put whatever conditions on labor they like? This is the worst kind of approach to governing ever, if it can even be called that.
    - nickkell 6y ago
      I can appreciate the irony of you posting this after seeing the post I was replying to. I hope you can appreciate it too!
  - missedthecue 6y ago
    The pilot unions are rent seeking from the man you are replying to. Why do you think he should support that?
- hpoe 6y ago
  EDIT: Just to clarify my point, my interest wasn't only in my wife, rather an anecdote about how these things can be vital to people's lives. That being said, yes I agree we should be grateful for what we have and me an my wife regularly marvel that if she'd been born just 40 years earlier she would've been dead by the time she was 9.

hpoe 6y ago

Counterpoint: My wife has a medication that has short shelf life and isn't widely distributed so it needs to be flown via air. Airplanes stop flying my wife no longer gets her medicine, she now dead.

AdrianB1 6y ago
That is true, but you cannot force someone to fly it regularly to her. The miracles of modern medicine allow people to live when this would not have happened 100 years ago, but cannot guarantee that. Take it as a gift, not as a given.
nickkell 6y ago
It sounds like quite an important job then. Maybe you should join in and pressure the bosses to give them the raise they need
- kepler1 6y ago
  Some great logic there. Put it on the one party to give into anything the other wants, because they're said to be important. Does it work the other way in your mind too? If we all agreed that air traffic or say, Amazon, were a critical resource and has to run efficiently and for the country's benefit, not individuals, that means that they get to put whatever conditions on labor they like? This is the worst kind of approach to governing ever, if it can even be called that.
  - nickkell 6y ago
    I can appreciate the irony of you posting this after seeing the post I was replying to. I hope you can appreciate it too!
- missedthecue 6y ago
  The pilot unions are rent seeking from the man you are replying to. Why do you think he should support that?
hpoe 6y ago
EDIT: Just to clarify my point, my interest wasn't only in my wife, rather an anecdote about how these things can be vital to people's lives. That being said, yes I agree we should be grateful for what we have and me an my wife regularly marvel that if she'd been born just 40 years earlier she would've been dead by the time she was 9.