lol faa email? Wtf is that?
Half the people here want the union president to to plug in instead of running the union and making the workforce bigger via CRWG changes. You think reducing the operational time of the workforce by 20% is needed/a good idea?
Well if we ask for once a week we get once a month.
This is not a reduction in work force or operational time.
For instance your elms that take "8" hours every year, you're responsible to KNOW. Safeguarding/ashsavi, eeoc, etc. BUT if you take more than 1 hour you're a shitbag.
The failure of low staffing is a management problem. You should have ground delay programs, miles in trail, extra tbfm NOW.
We're in the news for recent incidents more often with more pressure, you can blame whoever you want...or we could blame that there's no more time off or cash awards, no more fam flights, most controllers are on 6 day work weeks to be lower middle class, and a review day would promote safety.
Do you think if the tower controller in AUS had spent time reviewing abnormal runway ops and winds the day before they would have repeatedly messed up left and right?
Do you think if you had time to study new T/Q routes as vors are decommissioned you'd have to call and ask if a route is OK?
Do you think if you knew how to read the faa notam page for your tower/sector/area you could have a general idea of what the pilots thought?
I dunno if one day a week is too much...but it needs to be more than one half day of elms a year and 10 minutes of cedar before your shift.
Would it be an illegal work action if we all printed out and read THE WHOLE book when the changes came out?