What the FAA could do to make work suck less

[BDUB]

What COVID did for piloting is the same as what it did for us. It reduced the number of pilots flying for the airlines. For us, it stopped us from training, having the same effect. The difference is we are government and giving us a raise takes a literal act of Congress, and we see how well the those who want to dismantle all government in the House are getting along. Dare I say an argument for privatization? Don't @ me.

Hopefully it never comes to this, but when the airlines inevitably go through another bankruptcy cycle and all of these great contracts are thrown out I think we'll be sitting pretty happy again, relatively. Again, it will take a literal act of Congress to change our pay. Should the US Government go bankrupt? Well, then we have bigger problems.

Ask a contract controller if you want to be privatized lol

 

[Fat Porrey]

Ask a contract controller if you want to be privatized lol

Please, no! No dog whistles for the FCT simps….they’ve been quiet for a while!

 

[AnyTrafficPleaseAdvise]

Better staffing and more competent managers

 

[Acquired Taste]

Hopefully it never comes to this, but when the airlines inevitably go through another bankruptcy cycle and all of these great contracts are thrown out I think we'll be sitting pretty happy again, relatively. Again, it will take a literal act of Congress to change our pay. Should the US Government go bankrupt? Well, then we have bigger problems.

Sovereign nations who borrow in their own currency can't prepetually avoid going bankrupt as they can always print money to pay their debts. The kicker is that the money they repay won't always have value as we are seeing now. Controllers are making more money today than we have ever made in history, but our dollars stretch thinner than ever before as well.

We as a nation are insolvent and the only way to pay our obligations is to print. However, we can't print to give you a raise commensurate with the inflation that all the printing of the past has created that lowered your standard of living. We can only print for welfare, financing foreign proxy warfare, interest on the 34 trillion dollar debt, and entitlement programs that were overpromised and underfunded for all the boomers. Government workers, especially air traffic controllers, already have the best jobs in the world with the most competitive pay and benefits packages we can get so why don't you just get those dirty little thoughts of privatization out of your head because there's just no possible way we would ever get compensated more fairly than the government already does (or so I'm told).

 

[TushingPin]

Ask a contract controller if you want to be privatized lol

Actually privatization? Or like the 3 companies that own the contracts now. There's a big Ole difference. But what it boils down to is if there can be a company out there that's not greedy and is willing to actually pay

 

[32andBelow]

Actually privatization? Or like the 3 companies that own the contracts now. There's a big Ole difference. But what it boils down to is if there can be a company out there that's not greedy and is willing to actually pay

Sir this is America. We don’t do that here

 

[TushingPin]

Sir this is America. We don’t do that here

Let me dream. I'd go back contract to that location IMMEDIATELY. If base was 6 figures.

 

[boots]

MJ put a stop to this spam shit

 

[Logical_Mongoose]

if there can be a company out there that's not greedy

 

[Fat Porrey]

MJ put a stop to this spam shit

Waaaaaah MJ they want a raise waaaaahhh!

 

[mcubed820]

Idk if I missed it or not in the previous pages of this post but OT should be double time instead of time and a half

Edit: And pizza parties

 

[Somenewguy]

Fun ideas, some already said:

Staffing over 100% at low level facilities and facilities with historically high turnover rates. If 15 people want to transfer and facility staffing will only ever be 85%, then the current system is will not work.

High 3 based off of actual earnings.

EV chargers at all facilities.

Shorter shifts and/or shorter work weeks. 4/8s or 5 6 hour shifts on a rotating schedule would be a lot easier on the body than 6/8s. On the same line of thinking - overtime after 32 hours.

More admin time, health and wellness leave, detail days that can be worked remotely (give employees a day every couple months where they have to complete a couple of hours of elms, and don't make them come into work).

Time off awards when Admin staff get early holidays but staffing doesn't permit controllers to take the same hours off.

Transfer process where you can apply and be considered for one facility at a time - be given an approval/denial within 3 months and an offer letter with a definite start date no more than 4 years in the future, with specific reasons given for release dates over 2 years (4 because regardless of the facility type or level, that is enough time to put out a job bid, hire, and train a replacement employee). Avoids shotgunning, line skipping, and agency excuses.

Retirement based off of hours worked instead of years worked.
If you've worked 20 years of 50 hour work weeks, that would be the equivalent hours of 25 years FT.

More willingness from management to implement TMI in line with our actual operational readiness. Too often, the system is expected to work 100% of normal traffic volume or more with 75% staffing. It's an unreasonable request, and the front line controllers make it work when traffic management and command center don't do their jobs correctly.

 

[ATC123]

Time off awards when Admin staff get early holidays but staffing doesn't permit controllers to take the same hours off.

This one seems so simple. Tomorrow all Admin folks will get their 3hrs of MayorPete leave, which they got 2 weeks ago as well, and a month before that, and at the beginning of September, etc. It's at least 33hrs/year which is not insignificant.

 

[32andBelow]

This one seems so simple. Tomorrow all Admin folks will get their 3hrs of MayorPete leave, which they got 2 weeks ago as well, and a month before that, and at the beginning of September, etc. It's at least 33hrs/year which is not insignificant.

Why can’t they just give it to us as credit. Does mayor Pete even know. This is something Natca could fix with like 1 phone call probably

 

[MN]

Why can’t they just give it to us as credit. Does mayor Pete even know. This is something Natca could fix with like 1 phone call probably

Of course they know. There's no way they don't know how DHS has been doing it. They just don't care. Something something budget, I'm sure.

 

[32andBelow]

Of course they know. There's no way they don't know how DHS has been doing it. They just don't care. Something something budget, I'm sure.

But Natca never advocates for us on stuff like this so how can we even know that they know!

 

[GulfBravoPapa]

This one seems so simple. Tomorrow all Admin folks will get their 3hrs of booty leave, which they got 2 weeks ago as well, and a month before that, and at the beginning of September, etc. It's at least 33hrs/year which is not insignificant.

Fixed the type of leave