Come on guys, we need to do more than just chat among ourselves about this!
It is a fact that we Engineers or Techs which ever is politically correct have always been taken for granted. We have just as much power to ground an A/craft than a Pilot, 'actually more!'
When flight crew arn't getting what they want and EXACTLY what they want, they STRIKE! And it happens all over the world with all airlines till they get it!!!!!
And what do we do, we bitch and do NOTHING!
"An air traffic controller can unplug from the console at the end of the day, knowing that the days work is finished. When the flight crew leave the aircraft at the end of a flight, the chances are that any mistakes they made affected that flight only. But when maintenance personnel head home at the end of their shift, they know that the work they performed will be relied on by crew and passengers for days, weeks, and even years in the future!"