FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) Staffing: The Air Traffic Control Work Force Opposes Rehiring Fired Controllers

摘要

The authors asked FAA's current work force its opinion about rehiring some of the controllers who were fired because they took part in the August 1981 strike. Over 60 percent of the developmental and full performance level controllers, supervisors, and staff, and 85 percent of the managers at the largest air traffic control facilities who responded to our survey oppose rehiring any of the fired controllers. The work force's attitude toward rehiring the fired controllers is about the same today as it was shortly after the strike. In December 1981 the House Public Works Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight requested the Roper Organization to survey the FAA controllers who did not strike on the desirability of rehiring the striking controllers fired the previous August. About 58 percent of those responding to the Roper poll reported that they were against rehiring the fired controllers.