ICE Stokes Fear as TSA Workers Get Screwed
For nearly one month, about 50,000 workers from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) went without pay as their parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), had been under a partial funding freeze. This recent funding freeze comes after TSA agents were not paid for more than one month in the fall during an earlier […]
Flight Attendants Protest Poor Wages and Working Conditions
Tens of thousands of flight attendants rallied and picketed Tuesday at 30 major airports across the globe to demand that the airline industry provide higher wages and better working conditions. The demonstrations showed that many rank-and-file flight attendants were united and militant. Three unions jointly organized the “Worldwide Flight Attendant Day of Action.” These were […]
Boeing Near-Disaster
On January 5, an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 nearly crashed when a door plug, a critical component designed to seal unused exit doors, ripped away from the fuselage. Fortunately, no one was injured, and the flight landed safely. Subsequent inspections of United Airlines’ aircraft revealed bolts too loose to hold door plugs on […]
Air Traffic Controllers Warn The Sky is Not Safe
Every day we are getting closer to a major air disaster. In recent years, the number of close calls of an airport accident has increased dramatically. In the last year alone there were 300 events in which two commercial airliners almost collided. Just one of these could cost the lives of countless people. The reason […]