Air Traffic Controllers Urged To Take Buyouts And Quit

The Daily Beast reports:

Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash. They were among hundreds of thousands of federal workers sent the email at 8.30 p.m. Thursday. The email dropped almost exactly 24 hours after an Army helicopter crashed into an American Airlines jet as it came into land at Reagan National Airport, killing 67 people. Just one air traffic controller was doing the work of two controllers at the time, early reports have suggested.

In a statement, Nick Daniels, the president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, the union that represents air traffic controllers, said that while it was “not yet clear” how the resignation program would affect the union’s workers, it was “concerned” about the impact of losing “experienced aviation safety personnel during a universally recognized air traffic controller staffing shortage.”

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