[HN Gopher] FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controll...
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       FAA offering more incentives as air traffic controller shortage
       worsens
        
       Author : toomuchtodo
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2025-05-03 22:41 UTC (19 minutes ago)
        
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       | monero-xmr wrote:
       | It would be great if actually needed, demanding government jobs
       | could pay a market rate. And even better, we could somehow pay
       | better people more. And even even better - _fire poor
       | performers_. The more-less lockstep pay scales across the US
       | government are bizarre, as well as government unions, negotiating
       | with politicians. As FDR said:
       | 
       | > _All Government employees should realize that the process of
       | collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be
       | transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and
       | insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel
       | management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it
       | impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to
       | bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee
       | organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by
       | means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress.
       | Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are
       | governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws
       | which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel
       | matters._
       | 
       | > _Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant
       | tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of
       | Government employees._
       | 
       | - FDR, 1937 https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-the-
       | resolut...
        
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