Posted on 05/11/2016 9:54:58 PM PDT by george76
Before the FAA changed the hiring protocol in 2014, the majority of new air traffic control hires had served as controllers in the military or graduated from an FAA-approved Collegiate Training Initiative program — resulting in associate’s or bachelor’s degrees — and were given preference in hiring because of that experience.
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Since 2014, any applicants with aviation degrees or military service are now on equal footing with people without any experience, because the first step to being hired means passing the questionnaire.
In some cases, applicants with no experience are passing the questionnaire while those with academic training degrees are not ...
“I have a couple of students who actually were air traffic controllers in the military and failed that test,” said Tom Daly.. How could you be an air traffic controller for five years, very successfully, and fail that test?
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The change in hiring has angered Collegiate Training Initiative graduates, especially those who had already scored well on the AT-SAT and were on a preferred hiring list when the FAA announced it would make the change. A federal reverse discrimination lawsuit has been filed by the Mountain States Legal Foundation...
Lawyers estimate they could have as many as 3,000 plaintiffs who suffered from reverse discrimination, arguing the new hiring process was adopted to increase diversity in the controller workforce.
We have a statement from a leading FAA official that we quoted in the complaint, and he said that they made this decision in order to increase diversity ...
The FAA said if you go to a CTI school and you pass the AT-SAT that you will be eligible to go to training, and then after they had done that, the FAA disqualified them not because of their skills, but because they made a decision based on race
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
This is written in some form of gibberish. Explain how you “pass a questionnaire”?
Just say you’re a Muslim and you’re hired.
Just what I want, flying the friendly skies having to worry if someone was hired based off a diversity quota or was hired based off experience, education and qualifications.
In St. Louis, air traffic controllers are being hired by racial quota, regardless of education, experience, or any real passion about the job. Very discouraging. TSA and ATC jobs should go to vets first.
What could go wrong?
I remember racial quotas for FAA ATC positions back in the 70s, so it's not new. I am not sure, but maybe the difference is, now they don't even try to hide it.
I don't know why people want to do that job. It's really crappy. I did it twenty years, and there is NO glory in it whatsoever.
Hiring any old idiot walk-ins in order to fill some sort of half-arsed quota is not a particularly safe way to manage the skies.
My opinions is, diversity and racial quotas are their goals, not flying safety.
That would seem to be the obvious conclusion.
Would I be correct in assuming that his words were a bit more colorful?
I feel confidant knowing Neutron and Shitavious will do a fine job in the control tower when they’re awake.
If the test is so hard that vets and college grads with experience aren’t passing it then how are the less qualified diversity hires?
It probably wasn't as bad as that. The affirmative action people, many times, were hired first, but we washed out people who just couldn't control airplanes. So, if they couldn't hack the program, they were fired. That, of course, was a long time ago. I don't know what they do now.
Actually they should go to the best qualified regardless of ethnicity.
Sign it with a hand of the proper color.
And people ask why I refuse to fly.
Newsweek left out some important information...The National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees and the FAA’s HR department are caught up in a cheating lawsuit concerning feeding “correct” answers on the Biographical Questionnaire to BCFAE membership. The BCFAE lobbied for the change that purged the hiring pool in the name of “diversity” of course.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2015/05/22/faa-cheating-scandal-reaches-into-hr-office.html
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2015/05/27/outrage-as-faa-purges-qualified-air-traffic-control-candidates.html
The old admissions test saw some with experience fail, and some without experience pass. This apparently is weeding out the experienced ones who weren't very good at the job, and finding highly motivated and talented inexperienced folks who wanted the job pretty badly. This was somehow determined to be a BAD thing, so the test was scrapped. The test was scrapped, because racial diversity was being diminished. Therefore, race is explicitly MORE important than talent, effort, and ability combined, in the eyes of the FAA, a government body which is forbidden to discriminate on the basis of race... but it is allowed, apparently to make up for previous distant instances of racial discrimination.
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