Working Conditions and Staffing Needs in Air Traffic Control System: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, July 29, and 30, 1987

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Page 24 - Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to appear.
Page 117 - Participates in a strike, or asserts the right to strike, against the Government of the United States...
Page 106 - Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia...
Page 112 - * * * whether or not on all the evidence there is a reasonable doubt as to the loyalty of the person involved to the Government of the United States.
Page 87 - DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I am pleased to enclose the Federal Aviation Administration's responses to the questions contained in your July 31 letter.
Page 84 - We have a vote on the floor and I am going to have to run over there, and I will recess for 10 minutes.
Page 38 - ... management programs were needed to keep the number of aircraft passing through a given volume of airspace to a level which can be safely separated by the controllers and safely accommodated by the terminal facilities. The Safety Board's recommendations urged the FAA to take immediate action to: o reduce airport acceptance rates and limit flight plan approval as necessary to prevent continuing increases in traffic levels in the Air Route Traffic Control Center sectors and to ensure that airborne...
Page 117 - ... even under the competitive civil service examination process, the former strikers would go to the top of the register, ahead of other applicants. The practical result would be that FAA would be forced to hire virtually no one but former strikers for some time to come. As the President stated in 1981, "returning the striking controllers to their former positions would adversely affect operational efficiency, damage morale, and perhaps impair safety . . ." We believe this remains true today, and,...
Page 52 - ... controller staffing level prior to the strike included over 13,000 full performance level [FPL] controllers. (A full performance level controller is one who is fully qualified to operate all positions in a defined area.) As of June 1986, the number of FPL controllers was only slightly over 9,000. While the FAA claims their hiring figures indicate the addition of a much greater number of controllers, the real indication of the success of the rebuilding process is the number of full performance...
Page 52 - It takes years of exposure to combinations of dense traffic conditions, bad weather, and equipment failures to provide an individual with the ability to make good decisions under very trying conditions. The point is that today we have fewer FPL controllers to handle more aircraft, and those FPL controllers on an average are less experienced than those we had previously.

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