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.
Unintelligibly “diverse” announcements over the loudspeakers was the highlight of many a train ride and while waiting at the station.
Apslam dinga butta smokin bro
What are a few mid-air collisions and near misses. Diversity uber alles!
ANYTHING connected to the Biden’s administration is an automatic HELL NO answer.
He’s warmed up his corvette in the garage to many times.
Sir, I was dealing with the cousin of “diversity/equity hiring” in the seventies in sub contracts with the City of Austin. “Diversity Hiring” is just a 21 st century term for “Affirmative Action”. In the seventies/eighties, one game the City played back then was you had to have certain minority percentages NOT in employees but in your sub contracts if you were a General Contractor. I sued and they quickly threw in the towel.
Moreover, the Air Traffic Controllers on Tenerife were watching a football game on or about the time of the accident. Government’s hire low caliber people in the name of diversity and affirmative action. Air Traffic Controllers are akin to brain surgeons. They screw up, somebody usually dies. Remember that next time you buy a plane ticket.
PERFECT !!!
That’s just ignorant.
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