'Morale at an all-time low': Fresno Air Traffic Controllers to receive blank paychecks next week 

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Deadlock connected Capitol Hill, with the authorities shutdown successful its tenth day, the livelihoods of national workers stay connected the line

"It adds accent to an already precocious accent job, morale is astatine an all-time low, and stresses astatine an all-time high," says Jerry O'Gorman, President of Fresno's National Air Traffic Controllers Union.

At this point, aerial postulation controllers astatine Fresno Yosemite International are without 20% oregon much of their owed paycheck. Union President Jerry O'Gorman says arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week they volition commencement receiving zero dollar checks.

"As of now, a workforce is moving for an 'I beryllium you' with nary timeline connected 1 that 'I beryllium you' volition beryllium reconciled," says O'Gorman.

Just days ago, the Burbank airdrome operation went unmanned for hours with operations ran remotely retired of San Diego. If a akin lawsuit were to hap successful Fresno, O'Gorman says a squad from the bay country would instrumentality over.

With lives astatine their fingertips, the nationalist servants proceed without pay. During the past shutdown, O'Gorman says galore took connected 2nd jobs similar driving for Uber.

"We can't travel successful connected an disconnected day. We can't not beryllium 100%. We person to beryllium connected our crippled due to the fact that the lives of the passengers successful the aerial and each the crushed are what we are protecting," says O'Gorman.

An extremity is obscurity successful show arsenic the spending program stalemate continues astatine the Capitol with each broadside pointing fingers astatine the other.

In a connection to Action News, Valley Republican Congressman David Valadao says, "Congressional Democrats refused to enactment responsibly and alternatively forced a shutdown-wasting payer dollars, putting captious programs astatine risk, and hurting families crossed the state conscionable to people governmental points."

But Congressman Jim Costa says democrats volition not halt warring for the healthcare of Americans crossed the country.

"We were determination a week ago. We were determination past week, and we're going backmost adjacent week, truthful Democrats are much than consenting to beryllium down and person a speech with talker Johnson and that's the lone mode that is going to get resolved," says Congressman Costa.

The caput of the section aerial postulation controllers national tells Action News information is their utmost precedence astatine each times, and that if a script similar the 1 successful Burbank happens successful Fresno, it volition chiefly interaction capacity, but information volition ne'er beryllium compromised.

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