Flights to Los Angeles International Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage
Flights to Los Angeles International Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage
Flights to Los Angeles International Airport halted due to air traffic controller shortage
Flights to LAX were temporarily halted Sunday as the FAA cited a shortage of air traffic controllers linked to the ongoing federal government shutdown.
The Federal Aviation Administration said flights departing for Los Angeles International Airport were halted Sunday morning due to a staffing shortage at a Southern California air traffic facility.
The FAA issued a temporary ground stop at one of the world's busiest airports soon after U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted that travelers would see more flights delayed and canceled in the coming days as the nation's air traffic controllers work without pay during the federal government shutdown.
During an appearance on the Fox News program "Sunday Morning Futures," Duffy said more controllers were calling in sick as money worries compound the stress of an already challenging job.
Holy crap Americans are so complacent.
They are so against union action or workers banding together to do anything meaningful for their workplace or themselves that it takes another outside circumstance to cause them to stop working.
Unionize and work together to force all levels of government to do something about this problem!
Air traffic controllers once did have a union, they went on strike, and then Reagan fired everyone. The union was decertified by the government and dissolved.
Nah they still have the union, but it's illegal for them to strike so it's pretty toothless.
They still do have a union. It's just illegal for them to strike.
Might happen again at Thanksgiving.
Unions are for gays and socialist.
NO UNIONS.
like, what i don't get, is how you're imagining this.
people form a union, then strike, then what? simple, the company fires everyone who is on strike for "not fulfilling their work contract". simple as that, the company hires new people. these can strike too and lose their jobs too. new people get hired. repeat until the people left working at the company are those who don't strike in general.
what do you mean, "just strike"?
This isn't some night stocking retail job they can pull people off the streets for.
Vetting and training ATC takes actual years.
Reagan pulled off mass firings last time they tried striking by pulling in military ATC to do the job.
But yeah if it's a skilled industry and the strike is big enough it can and does force the company's hand.
I mean, it works everywhere else. If there was an unlimited pot of ATCs then flights wouldn't have been cancelled today.
From where? The large pool of unemployed skilled air traffic controllers?
How’s that boot taste?