Air traffic controllers' labor tactics raise concern
It's "unsafe" at busy airports throughout the country. There's a "staffing emergency" in air traffic control facilities serving Southern California. A "dangerous situation" in the skies and on the ground is about to "get worse." National Air Traffic Controllers Assn. President Patrick Forrey made those allegations last week in news releases and during a teleconference with reporters in the latest salvo in a long-standing labor dispute between the union and the Federal Aviation Administration. The disagreement over how to best staff air traffic facilities that guide planes through increasingly congested airspace and around busy airports has gotten personal.
See "Air traffic controllers' labor tactics raise concern", Jennifer Oldham, Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2008