Air Traffic Controllers Strike Brings Both Problems and Profits; Sept 9, 1981Roy, Robin
The current air traffic controllers' strike, now entering its third month, has become the focal point of an issue that is receiving increasing medical attention these days: job-related stress. The striking air controllers say that their job responsibilities occasionally induce almost unbearable stress...
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike of August 3. 1981 was a remarkable day in the 3292 Words 14 Pages Better Essays Preview Radar And The Air And Terrestrial Traffic Controller INTRODUCTION ON RADARS Have you ever thought how is a missile launched without seeing ...
Paul Francois Gomis, a leader of Senegalese air traffic controllers who were on strike, said that some union members in Cameroon, Congo and the Comoros had been arrested for participating in the strike. Article content Air Senegal had grounded several flights as a result of the action, Reuters...
Hundreds of thousands of flights across Europe this summer are in jeopardy after air traffic controllers vowed to take strike action. Up to 12,600 flights every day - around a third of the journeys made across the continent during the peak summer holiday period - could b...
In the past, nearly all civilian air traffic controllers worked for the FAA. In the wake of the 1981 PATCO strike, the FAA decided to contract out operation of some of its smaller air traffic control facilities. The program has grown over the years, and there are now many privately-...
In 1981, President Reagan fired the nation’s air traffic controllers after they went on strike. The current privatization debate is unrelated to that labor dispute.
“In spite of the prohibition of the strike by all the courts, and in spite of the orders of requisition of the air traffic controllers … the Union of Air Traffic Controllers’ Unions (USYCAA) has launched a wildcat strike,” ASECNA said on Friday. Article content “We have alrea...
ROME, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Italy's air traffic controllers went on strike Tuesday, causing flight cancellations across the country. The action took place over labor disputes with publicly owned air traffic service provider ENAV, private airlines Air Italy and easyJet, and with flag carrier Alit...
Air traffic control workers in France began a two-day strike on Wednesday, causing thousands of flights that would fly over French airspace to be cancelled and delayed. The French Civil Aviation Authority DGAC asked airlines to cancel approximately 40% of their flights on Wedne...