We Didn't Listen!

Published: Apr 14, 2011 by Will Urquhart Filed under: Economy Views: 1218 Tags: Airline controller, union, labor, airline safety

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The traditional media, playing out its role as reactionary in chief, is completely shocked and surprised that air traffic controllers keep falling asleep in their towers. How could this possibly keep happening!?! Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood calls it "absolutely unacceptable."

The fact is, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association has been telling us for years that their crews are overworked and underpaid. They warned us that we were in danger of this very thing happening. Now, it is easy not to notice the voices of the worker, they do not tend to get much placement on the Sunday talk show circuit, but were all MSM reporters blinded by the pretty hero pilot causing them to miss his warning to Congress just two years ago?

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