• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    3 hours ago

    The air-traffic control tower in the nation’s capital is authorized to have 28 controllers, the agency said.

    This is supposed to be spelled C-A-P-I-T-O-L.

    The spelling with A-L refers to money involved in starting a business endeavor.

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    9 hours ago

    This started under the Obama admin, and the towers have been understaffed for a very long time. It’s only now that there was an incident. This could’ve easily have happened two weeks ago, but it didn’t.

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        3 hours ago

        Maybe he fired him because he was creating dangerous problems like chronic understaffing?

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          43 minutes ago

          The issue actually goes back to Reagan. The professional air traffic controllers organization (PATCO) went on strike in 1981 because of understaffing, long hours, poor working conditions and low pay.

          Reagan fired them all and achieved two results: 1. set the precident that understaffing, long hours, poor working conditions and low pay were just fine for American air safety, and 2. started the long grind of devaluing skilled labor and erosion of workers rights in this country. We are experiencing the cascading consequences today.