Thousands of high air traffic monitors are now doing their work without salary on the horizon

Air traffic monitors are high and shock. Now with the government closing, it is about to get worse for people responsible for ensuring that air travel is safe and effective.

The government began closing on Wednesday and continues until Thursday, as the Senate departed from the Yom Kippur session.

Thousands are prepared in FAA, but none of them will be an air traffic monitors. Field training and employment will not be boycotted for more control units, according to the last closure of the Ministry of Transport Emergency plan. But air traffic controller will face difficulties.

Employees who consider it necessary to return to work while turning off the “protection of life and property”, even if it is without pay. More than 13,000 air traffic control units operating in Dot that fall in that category.

Currently compulsory additional control units are currently working for 10 hours a day, according to the National Workers Air Force Watch Association (NATCA).

“The increased stress and fatigue that comes from work for long hours cannot be exaggerated,” Natca President Nick Daniels said in a press statement on Wednesday.

Air traffic monitors are also required to work without the help of support staff. More than 2,350 aviation safety professionals represented by NATCA was subjected to the closure.

“The government closure reduces the integrity and efficiency of the national airspace system (NAS) and the erosion of the safety layers that allow the flying public to reach safely and on time to their destinations,” Natca participated in the press statement. “During the closure, critical safety support staff are neglected, and support programs are suspended, making it difficult for air traffic monitors and aviation safety specialists in perfect levels.”

and Aviation financing stability law It was presented last month by Democratic actors Steve Cohen from Tennessee and Andre Carson from Indiana that would maintain the staff of the Basic Federal Aviation Administration, including air traffic controller, driven for 30 days if the government is closed. It has not been voted yet.

Once the closure ends in the end, the workers will receive their salaries for their time, and they have not missed a salary yet. Jeff Davis, his colleague in the field of transportation, told Ceff Davis, the next payment day the following week on Friday, October 10. But the problem is that there is currently no clear end on the horizon to close it.

On Thursday, the majority leader John Thun told the Correspondents that the weekend vote is “unlikely”, which means that the closure may continue next week if there is no agreement tomorrow. Democrats require the inclusion of health care provisions, such as extending the lawsuit of the Care Law at reasonable prices, in the credit bill. If the Republicans stand against it, the closure will continue.

The last government closure during Trump’s first administration was 35 days. It was not over to force Trump on a demand for financing his draft law when he summoned ten observers of patient air traffic in Virginia and Florida, which established all flights at La Gardadia airport in New York and caused disturbances in other major airports throughout the country.

Lack of employment and work shocks

The closure and its effects come at a time when the United States competes with the continuous air traffic controller, which has led to many delaying flights.

Daniels said CNBC Earlier this year, air traffic controller employees were “the lowest level ever” and that “any hiccups, closing the government or anything disrupting the upcoming air traffic pipeline, will fully hurt the flying audience’s ability, and the number of aircraft that we can put in the air safely.”

The deficiency was the case for years, but it was brought to the spotlight recently due to a series of terrifying accidents.

American lines flight with a Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, DC, has collided earlier this year, 67 people were killed. Two months after that, Newark Airport I saw terrifying Interruption She witnessed that air traffic controllers lose all contacts with aircraft flying inside and outside the airport for 90 seconds.

The accidents did not stem from any air traffic control. However, they led to an increase in the air travel auditing, and they put both workers in air traffic safety and passengers on the edge of the abyss.