Control Tower Controversy brewing in the FAA

"Newps" wrote in message
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John Mazor wrote:

That's because, as Reagan proved in 1981, federal unions such as
PATCO
and NATCA are toothless tigers because they cannot strike. Their
sole power resides in their ability to convince management by the
logical force of argument - and we all know how well that works if
management doesn't want to cooperate - or lobbying for political
support on Capitol Hill.

NATCA just goes right over the head of management and directly to
Congress.

Right. They can't strike, so they play the only power card they have.

NATCA's expensive PR campaign to influence
Congress in the FAA Reauthorization Bill, necessitated by the loss
of
the political support that they enjoyed during the Clinton years,
proves that point.

NATCA is always going to Congress about something or other.

Right. They can't strike, so they play the only power card they have.

FAA is trying to get its ATC act together, see the ATO announcements
today. Time will tell if they can straighten it out enough to
forestall privatization.

-- John Mazor
"The search for wisdom is asymptotic."

"Except for Internet newsgroups, where it is divergent..."
-- R J Carpenter

"Tom S." wrote:

Bull!! Seniority is a major (the major?) key in any bureaucracy or Union.

It certainly was not a factor in the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of America, of which I was a member in the '70s.

George Patterson
The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians (ie. inducting a gay
bishop) are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that
the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his
wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his wife Anne of Cleves,
and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer
here to suffer through this assault on traditional Christian marriages.