The Federal Aviation Administration says flights departing for Los Angeles International Airport were halted briefly due to a staffing shortage at a Southern California air traffic facility.
In theory, I guess, but that can only go wrong with a highly technical job like ATC.
There’s a lot of things they could try on paper. All of them result in disaster. Not necessarily even planes hitting each other. Just one hub airport coming to loggerjams on the runway would be enough to have repercussions on the entire US airport network.
Yes, although ATC controllers have a lot of tools to not be working traffic
If a controller states they’re too fatigued to work traffic, they must be given other duties, if available. They’re given heavy legal protections to be able to say: I don’t feel safe working traffic today. Bit of a counter balance to the fact they’re basically slaves in regards to other worker protections
they would have to use force, they can try otherwise, it will just push them to quit. certain countries like australia is looking for ATC if things get to worst/.
Can you order them back to work and then not pay them?
We even have a word for this: slavery.
Which is illegal in the US, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
And since they made it illegal for ATC to strike…
In theory, I guess, but that can only go wrong with a highly technical job like ATC.
There’s a lot of things they could try on paper. All of them result in disaster. Not necessarily even planes hitting each other. Just one hub airport coming to loggerjams on the runway would be enough to have repercussions on the entire US airport network.
Yes, although ATC controllers have a lot of tools to not be working traffic
If a controller states they’re too fatigued to work traffic, they must be given other duties, if available. They’re given heavy legal protections to be able to say: I don’t feel safe working traffic today. Bit of a counter balance to the fact they’re basically slaves in regards to other worker protections
they would have to use force, they can try otherwise, it will just push them to quit. certain countries like australia is looking for ATC if things get to worst/.