Flower;
We do indeed have a union, and it was a pretty powerful and good union. Under Bush though, who seems to hate workers, he has pretty much directed the different govt. agencies to do what they can to neuter anything or anyone in labor. They have the supposed rules on thier side too, but we are going to challenge them in court. The problem with that is that the courts take forever to get anything done. The govt. agency that oversees labor issues has had all the leadership replaced by labor unfriendly folks who continually rule against labor. Hopefully the pendulum will swing come election time. We will see... I expect that I will no longer being working for the FAA when that happens though. I will probably be retired...
regards
Scott H. Voigt
NATCA Southwest Region
Safety and Technology Chairman