Aviation safety hangs in the balance as contract talks between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the air traffic controllers' union have stalemated. While FAA insists that it only wants to get back some of its "management rights," the union says its members' jobs have never been worse than they are right now. From the FAA's point of view, the agency's loss of administrative control over air traffic control (ATC) staffing issues, in particular, combined with soaring controller compensation levels,…
FAA and Union Go Into a Stall Over Fate of Air Traffic Control
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