Word: overwork
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controllers are unhappy, but pay is not a serious grievance. A fully rated controller at a busy airport can make between $45,000 and $60,000. Even so, says Thornton, "the problems of the past persist: overwork, old equipment, high stress. A union is more necessary than ever...
...abolish dueling. He promoted the Christmas tree. He composed music for the Duke of Wellington's funeral. He managed a lot of little things well. Yet even this doting biographer concedes that he was "excessively conscientious on quite minor matters." Albert died at 42, almost as much from overwork as from influenza...
Skirlick and other controllers met in Washington last week to organize the American Air Traffic Controllers Council, a replacement for the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, whose 11,400 striking members were fired in 1981. As with PATCO, overwork and understaffing are among the new group's chief complaints. Today there are 13,300 controllers; in 1981 there were 16,375. More significant, only 9,841 currently have "full performance" ratings, compared with 13,133 before the PATCO strike. About two years are required for neophyte controllers to be fully certified, so many council organizers favor rehiring some...
...most federal air controllers have been without union representation. Now, just as the Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to lift the last of the strike-related traffic restrictions from the airways, three groups of controllers in New York and the Washington area have petitioned to reunionize. Their complaints: overwork and FAA mismanagement, the same charges that led to the PATCO strike...
...distant work fields, just to keep them tired. Independent canting was punishable by death; laborers were fed communal "meals"--always boiled water with a countable number of rice grains. Lien and her brothers quickly adapted to their new lifestyles because they were too delirious to do otherwise. Weak from overwork and malnutrition, they could only focus their attention on food and day-by-day survival. Together they conjured up imaginary servings, as if the words alone could nourish them. While a nearby campfire or a scent in the air triggered memories of childhood meals. Lien says she actually grew...