Posted on 10/28/2023 4:09:56 PM PDT by george76
Joe Biden’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is striving to enlist a diverse workforce through targeting certain demographics even as its air traffic control system is facing shortages and safety challenges.
The FAA has several diversity hiring initiatives, including for black people, Hispanic people, disabled people and women, according to its website. At the same time, air traffic control is experiencing numerous issues including staffing shortages, mistakes, technological challenges and close call incidents.
“We’re certainly critical of the FAA’s efforts—in the past and in the present—to rely on race as a factor in hiring air traffic controllers,” Mountain States Legal Foundation General Counsel William Trachman told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Obviously we are talking about a line of work where merit and the need for skill are a matter of life and death. No one cares about the race of the air traffic controller guiding in their flight.”
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Mountain States Legal Foundation sued on behalf of plaintiff Andrew Brigida and over 2,000 other air traffic controller applicants who had test scores invalidated due to former President Barack Obama’s 2015 FAA diversity policy intended to hire more minorities. The lawsuit became class-action certified in 2022.
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The Supreme Court effectively ruled that the use of affirmative action race-based admissions policies in colleges is unconstitutional in June.
Another reason not to fly.
This is like the Bizarro’s on Superman.
Xiden’s #1 job requirement for air traffic controllers: Must be fluent in jive.
Diversity hiring is a way to get a bunch of nincompoops. Hire the best person for the job. Don’t interview. Just go by test scores.
This is so consistent. The military now ignores merit, so why not the FAA?
I’m so glad I don.t use air lines.
Cheer up, it could get worse.
And whether or not we do, it will get worse.
Everything touched by the left turns to Obamastuff.
I’m telling you - private rail travel is going to make a big comeback
Problem is for us folks on the ground with no idea of what’s going on over our heads.
Before, minimal worry with qualified air traffic controllers running the show. Now, who knows.
If that doesn’t make you want to fly I don’t know what will.
Dumb unqualified stupid “diverse” people in charge of your life because of the color of their skin
And people doubt that this Regime will collapse.
Flight 76 Into the Panderverse....
Actually, written testing doesn’t get it done either. Only OJT will show if someone is able to visualize in a 3D world.
People wilk die even not flying if those planes crash. They are pushing wokeness hires for pilots too.
Affirmative action pilots and affirmative action air traffic controllers… what could possibly go wrong?
Flight Fee Fi Fo Fo Fee to Runway Foty
I was a flight attendant for several decades. Have flown with diversity hires - minorities and women. Would not recommend.
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