President Obama's proposed budget calls for the closing of the Manned Space Center on Florida's Space Coast and the privatization of those efforts.
If passed by Congress, the cuts would result in the loss of 7,000 jobs at NASA and thousands more in Central Florida. School districts on the coast and across Central Florida would feel the effects as families in the industry and in supportive industries leave the area in search of work.
Teachers from Brevard, Seminole, and Orange Counties rallied in support of the workers.
Watch the video taken and posted by the Transport Workers Union today, March 1, 2010.
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