[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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