Air traffic controllers are among the first-year employees with weak civil service protections who have received emails strongly hinting that they will be fired, in an initiative that I scooped last night: prospect.org/labor/2025-0... - ThreadSky

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ddayen.bsky.social • 23 days ago

Air traffic controllers are among the first-year employees with weak civil service protections who have received emails strongly hinting that they will be fired, in an initiative that I scooped last night:
https://prospect.org/labor/2025-01-29-probationary-employees-targeted-for-mass-purge/

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camps123.bsky.social•23 days ago

😥

jenhayden.bsky.social•23 days ago

This is shocking given how critically understaffed they are right now and worse, those controllers who were certified around 2000 time period are retirement eligible and approaching mandatory retirement age.

2strong.bsky.social•23 days ago

Well, they’ll probably eventually be able to find jobs when air traffic control is privatized, however, many crashes later that will be.

birlingwoman.bsky.social•23 days ago

😠

johnfromnearboston.bsky.social•23 days ago

They don't understand how government works but want it smaller, so they're just taking a sledgehammer to any position that doesn't carry a gun.

No purpose to it, just destruction.