Union Tells Transportation Secretary U.S. Faces An Air Traffic Safety Crisis

http://www.laborradio.org/node/7618

By Doug Cunningham

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association continues to press its case that air traffic controller staffing levels combined with FAA demands are rendering the skies unsafe for the traveling public. The latest salvo from the union is in a letter to Transportation Secretary, Mary Peters. The union says air traffic controllers "simply cannot safely handle the volume of air traffic that the FAA is currently demanding of us, let alone even attempt to do so with further staff losses in the weeks ahead."

Eleven hundred more controllers are expected to retire in coming months. The union says we now face a cisis in air transportation in the U.S. that requires national leadership to resolve.

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