in 2007 900 ATCs took 15,700 sick days, an average of about 17 days sick leave each.
I took less than 8 sick days and did over 20 call ins. A lot of those sick days by peers are long term ones (hospitalisation etc).
How come several Sydney controllers recently received VR. Who got that wrong?
An IRC decision as part of a failed restructure - taking 100 controllers off line and see what happens. Some old supervisors and TLs weren't part of the the NEW ballgame according to selectors.
There was a part of Airservices known as People and Change. Are they still running the show? From what I hear from ATC staff the decisions, or lack of them, coming from that unit are fine examples of ineptitude and stupidity.
You said it sir!
It's sad that a good system which worked has been interfered with to the extent that the staff have become completley disillusioned.
But hey, we made $104M* in profit last year!!!
*Questions: We are a government enterprise; The govt has a a $17B budget surplus....why do we NEED to show a profit (as opposed to revenue neutral)? why does our executives have remuneration based on profit, cost savings, and slashing expenditure (the results are in!)? Is not safe air navigation provision expected in a western nation?