Question for Americans ATCOs : is it really true that you have a new scale pay since avout 2006 and that new ATCOs don't receive the same pay in comparison with colleagues working at the same facility ! ???
If it's true how could that happened ?
FrenchATCO,
Two words -- George Bush.
There is no contract -- no signed agreement. There are only "Imposed Work Rules."
It is illegal to strike or engage in any type of job action for U.S. Government employees. That is the reason President Reagan was allowed to fire all the PATCO controllers in 1981.
If you find it hard to understand from over there, imagine being over here.
The only legal recourse an individual has is to retire or quit. Controllers are doing both in record numbers.
I retired in 2006 when the Imposed Work Rules were implemented. My pay was roughly $150,000 (per year) the year I retired -- after 25 years at the Atlanta ARTCCenter.
Don Brown