Vin rouge
"One would assume the controllers are not overworked, otherwise they wouldnt be volunteering for so much overtime."
Speaking to a controller friend of mine who is Spanish but does not work in Spain, I donn't believe that the overtime is voluntary; I understood the majority of it to be compulsory, although I stand to be corrected.
One thing strikes (pardon the pun) me about all this is that we are very clearly not in possession of facts from credible sources and as such I don't think we can easily judge the rights and wrongs of this. The media and government sources will clearly put a spin on it all, if indeed they have the true facts in the first place! Don't praise or condemn until we know.
Cheers,
northerner
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