Chip Jones wrote:

We fear that
privatization will place us into an environment where the contractor
pushes us to cut major safety corners (you know, in the name of
"efficiency") and then when people get hurt or airplanes get too close,
the poor SOB working the sector will get fired for "poor job performance"
rather than the contractor getting sacked for putting the controller in
that situation and
the people in the airplanes in that situation.

From reading postings here by ATC-ers, I thought that the above was
occurring today in some places in the current system.

- Andrew