SITWAP? Harry Reid claims that the FAA shutdown is the blame of Delta Airlines related to unions?
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Aug 4 '11, 06:29
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NORRIS: Before I let you go, I want to shift away from the debt ceiling for just a moment. You've been very outspoken about the ongoing showdown over funding for the Federal Aviation Administration. Where does that stand right now? You have a direct interest in this. A small airport in your home state is directly affected by this dispute, and you're calling on the Senate now to take this up as the House has done.
REID: The House has tried to make this an issue over essential air service. It's not a battle over essential air service. It's a battle over Delta Airlines who refuses to allow votes under the new rules that have been passed by the NLRB, it's all a nonunion organization, Delta Airlines, they're the ones that are holding this up. As a result of what Delta Airlines has done, 80,000 people today are out of work. It has nothing to do with essential air service. It has everything to do with their anti-union activities.
NORRIS: Well, should we assume that FAA will open sometime in August? Would you allow this to continue? Is it possible that the FAA will be shut down through September?
REID: The FAA cannot go forward because of what the House has done. They're out of session now. And what they've sent over here won't pass.
NORRIS: So it will be closed through September? We can't...
REID: It will be closed until - maybe not September, maybe more than that. They've refused for more than a year to appoint conferees because they're unwilling to go forward on the issue because of the anti-union sentiment of Delta Airlines.
NORRIS: Senator Reid, thank you very much for your time.
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