They’re coming after my pay and retirement

Same, if I hadn’t just started a family I would be hustling trying to get into Australia as a controller.

I know of 3 people at my center who are going, and one guy I used to work with who’s going. Heard the same about ZAB as well. Embarrassing that ATC feel the need to move to Australia for any semblance of work/life balance or QOL. Saddest part is the FAA will learn absolutely nothing from it and nothing will change, lol.

All their other foreign bids I’ve heard of like maybe 1 or 2 FAA-wide going. These numbers are unprecedented.
 
NATCA Members and Allies:

Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its budget framework (budget resolution), establishing top-line limits for spending, taxes, deficits, and the public debt. The budget resolution is not law, but it provides a blueprint with instructions on how Congress should address key subjects. With both the House and U.S. Senate now generally aligned on a broad budget outline, the next step for the Republican majorities will be to draft legislative text to enact specific program cuts and other changes needed to fulfill the requirements of the budget resolution.

This forthcoming legislation is widely expected to include cuts to programs across the federal government. The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHB) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), including the supplemental annuity that applies to public safety professions, including air traffic controllers, could all be targeted for cuts.

Lawmakers need to hear now from NATCA members and our families and friends about the urgent need to protect FERS by preserving current benefit levels, including the supplemental annuity, and opposing any increase in employee contributions to FERS or FEHB.

Using this tool, please share these key facts with your Members of Congress. Do NOT participate in this campaign on a government device, while at the federal workplace, or while on duty time.

FERS is a vital part of the compensation structure that enables the federal government to recruit, retain, and honor the public servants who take on high-stakes work like air traffic control.

Air traffic controllers, federal law enforcement officers, federal firefighters, and other public safety professionals rely on a three-legged stool of retirement benefits. This includes our enhanced annuity calculation in FERS, the supplemental annuity program that provides us with an equivalent benefit in retirement until we are social security eligible at age 62, and the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP).

Air traffic controllers and other safety professionals pay into FERS at a higher rate than other federal employees to earn these benefits. After we have paid these higher FERS rates for our entire careers, preserving these earned benefits is a simple matter of fairness.

Cuts to air traffic controllers' FERS benefits, including our supplemental annuity, would likely cause many controllers to retire earlier than they would otherwise have planned—compounding an already serious nationwide staffing shortage of certified air traffic controllers.

These changes would not only make it harder to retain current controllers, they would also make it harder to attract the next generation of aviation safety professionals needed to meet our nation’s growing aviation demands and to maintain our global leadership in aviation safety.

Your elected officials need to hear from you now. This campaign will allow you to send a quick email or make a phone call to your elected officials. Follow the link below to tell your Representatives and Senators that NATCA strongly supports preserving FERS.

May I share this on a different platform?
 
You have communicated with the following:
  • Senator Alex Padilla (email)
  • Senator Adam Schiff (email)
  • Representative Ami Bera (email)
 
You have communicated with the following:
  • Senator Marsha Blackburn (email)
  • Senator Bill Hagerty (email)
  • Representative David Kustoff (email)
The first 2's lips are orange, if you get my drift and I have no idea about the 3rd guy, but we'll see.
 
Thank you for taking action to ask Congress to protect federal employee benefits, including FERS and the supplemental annuity.
You have communicated with the following:
  • Spineless MAGA slave Senator Chuck Grassley who's outlived multiple popes and doesn't want the same healthcare he receives available to his constituents (email)
  • Able to conveniently ignore Trump's repeated sexual assaults despite basing her attempts to be relatable on sexual assault Senator Joni Ernst (email)
  • Representative Zach Nunn, who helped me identify our neighborhood's closeted MAGAs based on who only put his signs in their yard (email)
I expect to get nothing more than a form letter back at best and to continue screaming into the void.
 
You have communicated with the following:
  • Senator Alex Padilla (email)
  • Senator Adam Schiff (email)
  • Representative Sam Liccardo (email)
I added a personal, heartfelt section on how US air traffic controllers are the best in the world—and need to be. I went on to express how they're currently already stretched to the breaking point, largely due to schedules and staffing, and how many are already considering finding work in other industries.

I'm sure it will be throughly ignored, because nobody gives an ass about anything from the heart anymore—it's all about form letters and quantity.
 
Thank you for taking action to ask Congress to protect federal employee benefits, including FERS and the supplemental annuity.
You have communicated with the following:
  • Spineless MAGA slave Senator Chuck Grassley who's outlived multiple popes and doesn't want the same healthcare he receives available to his constituents (email)
  • Able to conveniently ignore Trump's repeated sexual assaults despite basing her attempts to be relatable on sexual assault Senator Joni Ernst (email)
  • Representative Zach Nunn, who helped me identify our neighborhood's closeted MAGAs based on who only put his signs in their yard (email)
I expect to get nothing more than a form letter back at best and to continue screaming into the void.
This is a finalist for post of the year!
 
My question is that ATC is already understaffed.

So, the company that was pretty good at electric cars (even though mine has been a 'brick' the last 24 hours and it won't get fixed until tomorrow) and as is semi-reliable at using NASA tech to put satellites into space but is terrible at heavy lift, going to take over the system and bring a cost savings as a private enterprise?

Le.... wot?!
 
My question is that ATC is already understaffed.

So, the company that was pretty good at electric cars (even though mine has been a 'brick' the last 24 hours and it won't get fixed until tomorrow) and as is semi-reliable at using NASA tech to put satellites into space but is terrible at heavy lift, going to take over the system and bring a cost savings as a private enterprise?

Le.... wot?!
Chaos Administration
 
(Yes, I have a 4300 pound paper weight in my garage at the moment)
Do you have a real car as a spare? No sarcasm, this is one of my very-many questions regarding EV's. I saw the new Porsche Taycan Turbo GT thing on Saturdays Motorweek and WOW.
 
Do you have a real car as a spare? No sarcasm, this is one of my very-many questions regarding EV's. I saw the new Porsche Taycan Turbo GT thing on Saturdays Motorweek and WOW.

That car is exactly what I want when the wheels fall off the Tesla.

Oh, my backup is my wife's... Tesla.

I have some ''work from home' this week anyway so it's not even a big deal. I do need to maybe get a little sunlight, speaking of that.
 
You can see from this deep red list it's a steep uphill battle, but I will continue to voice my dissension. I strongly believe this is with the end result being further privatization of the industry and services - screw it up so bad there will no choice but to bring in outside companies.
Good luck, stay safe, and thanks for all y'all do keeping eyes on us in the skies.

You have communicated with the following:
  • Senator Lindsey Graham (email)
  • Senator Tim Scott (email)
  • Representative Joe Wilson Sr. (email)
 
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