Trump admin emails air traffic controllers: quit your jobs
Trump admin emails air traffic controllers: quit your jobs
Trump Admin Emails Air Traffic Controllers: Quit Your Jobs
Summary
The Trump administration emailed air traffic controllers urging them to quit and accept buyouts 24 hours after a fatal Reagan plane crash.
At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, the email urged federal employees to pursue private-sector jobs, offering pay incentives and vacation benefits while on government payroll.
This program contradicts established rules by allowing second employment, sparking union concerns about losing experienced personnel amid an air traffic controller shortage.
Trump blamed previous administrations for safety issues and misrepresented FAA standards, intensifying culture wars as officials remain uncertain about the buyout program's future.
Given the persistent and extreme understaffing of air traffic controllers it wouldn't take that many quitting at the same time to have a massive impact.
What do the think is going to happen? Privatize air traffic control? Or just rank the economy so bad they buy everything up?
Well the cynic in me says "to undermine the public trust in the safety of air travel so people become more isolated, unwilling to organize, and dependent on either corporate-controlled media or gasoline-powered cars to maintain contact with any part of the world outside a 20-mile radius," and the nutjob conspiracy theorist in me sure thinks he could make a convincing corkboard out of it if you gave him enough thumb tacks and red string, but once again I could be making the mistake of assuming they're going into this with a plan and not just flailing wildly to make it look like they're addressing a problem they have no idea how to solve.
That has already been suggested by his minions. Let the airlines manage everything. Including baggage and body checking.
Oh god, the very idea...
Close all the exits.
He could totally intend to privatise ATC. They're already halfway done with privatising education, and there's no need to even mention healthcare.
US can into theocratic Stone Age.
They literally want to privatize every government function they possibly can. They're saying it out loud, and have been for some time, and with control of all three branches of the federal government there's absolutely nobody to stand in their way. So buckle up because things are about to get very bumpy.
Just get ChatGPT do it or something
They absolutely want to privatize it.
And there will be many more plane crashes when they do.