Word: skirlick
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...Angeles last week, Anthony Skirlick, 36, was one of hundreds of angry passengers delayed for two hours on the runway at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, awaiting takeoff clearance from air-traffic controllers. Most travelers do not know precisely who is to blame for such holdups. But Skirlick, who is an air-traffic controller at the busy Palmdale, Calif, traffic center, lays the responsibility squarely on the doorstep of his employer, the Federal Aviation Administration. Says he: "They are simply trying to do more work with fewer people, and the technology is not keeping...
...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...
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