Myth number one: We are 12,000 greedy sons of whatever that struck for $10,000 across the board. The economy being what it is, could they possibly be thinking?' Have you heard that?
It is not true.
There Were ninety-nine items in the contract PATCO FAA. three that we considered most prominent, in order of impor 1) a reduced number of years to retirement shorter work 3) a pay raise would WCI ask for reduced retirement?
well, according horitis to the Federal Aviation own figures, 89 per cent of the controllers that have left air traffic in the last three years have done so under meaica. disability. The concept controller going years in a high-density vicinity is ludicrous.
There are statistics that the average controller is good for a maximum of seven years at a high-density facility: After that, burnout - peptic ulcers, heart failure, to say nothing of wear and tear on a family structure from working a rotating shift.
Stress The second thing we ask for in our contract work week Controllers in other countries seem to have recognised the stress of working a controller forty hours a week.
They recognised it France, in Canada, in Germany in England. work less than forty hours. Let me remind you that the controllers in the US work five times the tratfic of any other country. Five times.
We asked for a reduced retirement. What they gave us was $14,000 severance pay the day you can't make it up the steps.