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Article: Air Traffic Controllers File Suit to Stop Privatization of Key Air Traffic Safety Functions; Controllers Allege Age Discrimination
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 30, 2005
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WHEATON, Md., March 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Supported by the
National Association of Air Traffic Specialists, 796 Flight Service
Controllers are filing suit in the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia on March 31, to halt the Bush
Administration's plan to force out older workers before their
retirement vests by contracting out a major portion of the nation's
Air Traffic Control System.
Beginning in October 2005, the Bush Administration plans to
contract out employment of over 1,900 Flight Service Controllers in a
deal worth approximately $1.9 billion to Lockheed Martin over five
years. Flight Service Controllers form a critical communications
network across the country, ...