Posted on 02/01/2025 4:28:56 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
The air traffic controllers union responded Friday to claims by President Trump this week that diversity programs contributed to the fatal crash in Washington Wednesday night.
“Air traffic controllers earn the prestigious and elite status of being a fully certified professional controller after successfully completing a series of rigorous training milestones. The standards to achieve certifications are not based on race or gender,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
What are the standards to get hired is the question.
First I’ve heard of Nick. I’m betting he’s wrong.
Have they lowered the standards. That’s the question. We know there are standards.
In its own 0bama-era archives, the FAA bloviates about:
<><>”On-the-spot special appointment authority”
<><>to hire individuals via a “non-competitive hiring method,”
<><>which specified hiring air traffic controllers “with severe physical disabilities,”
<><>”and those with psychiatric disabilities, and intellectual disabilities.”
The FAA DEI initiative was last updated by Obama
accomplice, Joe Biden, according to Fox News.
The last time the Air Traffic Controller unions decided to go to war with a President they all got fired.
President Trump is in no mood to play word games.
wondering how the paraplegic and the mentally ill candidates did. The unions follow the rats period
President Trump is a master at drawing the illegal alien enablers, the DEI true believers and garden variety hard core leftists out of the closer.
Every time a bureaucrat reacts in opposition to one of his comments or Executive Orders they are making his job of draining the Swamp a little easier.
They save President Trump and his administration a lot of hard work by self identifying as someone who needs to find other employment!
Stopped reading after Union.
If this accident is the result of their strict standards then we are all in trouble
What we need is MORE ATC and other Government officials to have SEVERE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES!! MORE!!
I saw a post of an image of one tranny pilot’s resume. Education was “Lucy Flowers Vocational School”. Seemed like a joke, but there really is a school with that name. If they do train ATCs, I wonder what their success rate is when it comes to stellar grades.
That is wrong question, I would guess that ATC Certification Standards remain high. But the hiring criteria is based on DEI, not the best and brightest of the certification.
I mean, “if they train PILOTS”, not ATCs.
I’m no Sherlock Holmes but since I’m a male, I’m going to throw this out— The pilot was a young guy. The copilot was an unnamed woman who was in training. It was a training mission for her. There is a reason sailors weren’t allowed to have women onboard hundreds of years ago, iits because of all the interpersonal problems that go hand-in-hand with sexual interplay. When a man is attracted to a woman, everything is firing in his brain and he literally can’t think straight. I’m wondering if this was part of the dynamic in that cockpit. I’m wondering if the pilot was chatting the girl up, and focusing on her instead of focusing on the aircraft he went straight towards like a missile.
I am wondering what category those FAA employees protesting the loudest fall under:
“The Federal Aviation Administration is looking for recruits with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities as it tries to hit woke DEI targets.
The agency is hunting people with psychiatric issues and other mental and physical conditions in its latest diversity drive.
The FAA, which includes jobs such as air traffic controllers, are keen to employ those with hearing and vision impairments, missing limbs, partial and complete paralysis.”
One applicant claims he scored 100% on the ATC exam.....if that truly is the case, someone with a lower score was given a position instead of him.....that will be very difficult to explain away.
I remember one other time the ATC Union challenged the POTUS and didn’t end well for them when Reagan fired a lot of them
No, just the standards for hiring them.
Jeesh!
Of course there are “standards”. Lets see them and are different standards for different people?
Does this mean that Trump is going to fire the worst of them and hire the most qualified from now on?
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