Word: supervisors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic was making flying in some ways even safer. The working controllers were going about their jobs with an esprit de corps that had been sadly lacking when the more militant unionists, spoiling for a strike, were among them. Declared Frank Arcidiacono, a former controller now a supervisor at the Los Angeles radar center, as he noted the pickets outside his building: "It's a manager's dream. The snivelers, the criers and the whiners are out there in the sun. Everybody who has come to work has come to work...
...previous level of such aircraft, which normally account for about 44% of the controllers' total work load. Both military and private pilots, however, can fly freely outside of controlled airspace under visual flight rules (VFR)-and are doing so in a quantity that alarms some controllers. Contends a supervisor at California's Oakland radar center: "They've got too much damn military flying under VFR. It's impossible for them to fly under 'see and avoid' conditions-they're moving too fast. They're going to hit someone...
...that PATCO members "filed grievances on every little thing and management retaliated, and there was harassment on both sides." Now, he says, "we can move three times the traffic because we're all working together." The most stress, he adds, is crossing the picket lines. Bill Kolacek, a supervisor at the Aurora center near Chicago, compares running the picket line to his Army experience in Viet Nam. Driving up to the facility, he says, "I put my foot on the clutch, my left leg starts shaking, and my back tenses up." He feels sorry for the older strikers...
...controllers do not want their former colleagues back on the job, fearing that the friction would be worse than before. Declares Stan Recek, a nonunion controller in Miami: "I'll work seven days a week, 16 hours a day, to keep them from coming back." Nor do the supervisors want to go back to pushing paper. "I'm having a ball," says Mike Hughes, a supervisor in Miami. "I'm happier with my job now than I have been in the past three years...
...putting in 60-hour weeks (they are scheduled to be cut back to 48 hours this week) are worried about remaining alert as the months go by. "I have to ask myself, 'How long can I do this?' " concedes Harry Burke, a Los Angeles controller. Admits a supervisor in Oakland: "It's just not realistic to think this can go on for two years." Safety Expert John Galipault, who heads Ohio's nonprofit Air Safety Institute, takes a cataclysmic view of how long the current system will last: "Until there's a midair collision...