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Air traffic controllers were initially offered buyouts and told to consider leaving government (apnews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., employees at the Federal Aviation Administration were sent an offer to resign with eight months’ pay.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (3 children)

why the flying fuck would you do that? there's a shortage of atc--pretty much always is.

orite, my bad. sorrysorrysorry.

plunder by way of privatization is the goal.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Move fast and break people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

They want to shut down the ways out

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry I'm sure the Stargate AI will save us all /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

now we are talkin, replace all controllers with a chatbot

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Okay. I was waiting for confirmation of this. I doesn't matter if the office says afterwards that "this offer didn't apply to you". This is still a credible threat from the Trump admin to force resignation, endangering aviation safety and safety of other industries which these federal agencies are meant to regulate.