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Article: Air traffic jobs: a private-public split International Traveler / Update
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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Air traffic control has become a flashpoint of the Bush administration
effort to contract out hundreds of thousands of federal jobs to the
private sector. Both the House and Senate voted last week to forbid
further privatization of the air traffic system, after vigorous lobbying
by the controllers' unions, supported by an organization representing
private pilots. Soon negotiators for the two houses will iron out
differences in the bill to which the measures were attached. The underlying
bill authorizes the Federal Aviation Administration to spend money
for the next few years; the House version is for $58.9 billion over
the next four years and the Senate version is for ...