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Essential Duties of a Traffic Control Controller
(Top Stories)
Created on 16 July 2024
...  must paintings together properly in order for operations to be triumphant and public safety to be preserved. By carefully acting their jobs, traffic controllers contribute to the clean operation of roadway ...
Why AI can’t replace air traffic controllers
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 31 January 2024
Control towers at airports are only the most visible parts of the complex national air traffic control system.Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesAfter hours of routine operations, an air traffic controller ...
Why did Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 have a sealed-off emergency exit in the first place? The answer comes down to money
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 19 January 2024
... since an Alaska Airlines crew managed to land the plane with no fatalities. I commend the outstanding performance of airline employees, air traffic controllers and emergency responders who achieved this ...
2023's historic Hollywood and UAW strikes aren't labor's whole story – the total number of Americans walking off the job remained relatively low
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 21 December 2023
... several reasons. One dramatic turning point was the showdown between President Ronald Reagan and the country’s air traffic controllers, which culminated in a 1981 strike by their union – the ...
What's your chronotype? Knowing whether you're a night owl or an early bird could help you do better on tests and avoid scams
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 07 November 2023
... to solving problems and making complex decisions – when these actions are synchronized with their personal circadian peaks. This is known as the synchrony effect. Whether you are an air traffic controller ...
What's your chronotype? Knowing whether you're a night owl or an early bird could help you do better on tests and avoid scams
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 07 November 2023
... to solving problems and making complex decisions – when these actions are synchronized with their personal circadian peaks. This is known as the synchrony effect. Whether you are an air traffic controller ...
What will this government shutdown shut down? Social Security and Medicaid keep going; SBA loans and some food and safety inspections do not
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 27 September 2023
... , slower mortgage applications, curtailed food assistance or postponed food inspections, the effects could be substantial. Air traffic controller training will be halted in a government shutdown.Joe Raedle/Get ...
United Auto Workers strike – if it happens – should channel the legacy of Walter Reuther, who led the union at the peak of its power
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 31 August 2023
... began with the ill-fated strike by 11,500 air traffic controllers in August 1981. Soon after Robert E. Poli assumed its presidency, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers went on strike. The union, known ...
Waves of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 24 August 2023
... Reagan and the country’s air traffic controllers, which culminated in a 1981 strike by their union – the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Like many public workers, air traffic ...
What is the FAA's NOTAM? An aviation expert explains how the critical safety system works
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 13 January 2023
... or anything else that may affect the safety of flight. Trained professionals – like air traffic controllers, airport managers, airport operations personnel and FAA personnel in charge of national ...
Railroad unions and their employers at an impasse: Freight-halting strikes are rare, and this would be the first in 3 decades
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 23 November 2022
... which gives Congress the power to intervene before a rail strike starts. Breaking the air traffic controllers union With travel by road and air growing in importance in the 20th century, other transportation ...
Amazon, Starbucks worker wins recall earlier period of union success – when Central American migrants also expanded US labor movement
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 30 August 2022
... air traffic controllers. Downsizing and outsourcing at American companies in the 1980s also eroded union membership and pushed wages down. Many Guatemalans and Salvadorans were veteran community organizers. ...
Traffic jams are contagious. Understanding how they spread can help make them less common
(Top Stories)
Created on 08 April 2020
... we have created a simple model based on a contagion model often used to predict the spread of illness, which produces results quickly and can help traffic controllers respond in real time to traffic jams. ...
6 things you can do to cope with boredom at a time of social distancing
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 27 March 2020
... We can feel bored even with jobs and activities that appear to be meaningful. For example, researchers have found anesthesiologists and air traffic controllers find themselves bored on the job. What this ...
Physician burnout: Why legal and regulatory systems may need to step in
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 09 July 2019
... one. Many laws and regulations protect the health and welfare of American workers. This is particularly true when public safety depends on those jobs. Regulations limit the work hours of air traffic controllers, ...
Here's how airplane crash investigations work, according to an aviation safety expert
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 19 March 2019
... communications with the aircraft, including from air traffic controllers, and record any conversations among cockpit occupants and other audible cockpit sounds for the two hours leading up to the crash. ...
The shutdown: Drowning government in the bathtub
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 12 February 2019
... and former heads of Homeland Security, including John Kelly, wrote to the White House and members of Congress expressing concerns about national security. TSA and air traffic controllers worked without ...
Curious Kids: why are burps so loud?
(Top Stories)
Created on 07 February 2019
... lungs and that means the opening to your food pipe is now clear. (The epiglottis is a bit like a traffic controller.) It’s all about the epiglottis and the oesophagus. Shutterstock  ...
How Central American migrants helped revive the US labor movement
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 18 January 2019
... h his firing of 11,0000 striking air traffic controllers. Downsizing and outsourcing at American companies in the 1980s also eroded union membership and pushed wages down. Many Guatemalans and Salvadora ...
Amelia Earhart would have a hard time disappearing in 2019
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 04 January 2019
... ; some efforts, like the search for MH 370, include many nations and businesses. When all is going well, most planes are tracked by radar, which can also help air traffic controllers prevent midair collisio ...