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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 ...
Curious Kids: what's the history of aircraft squawk codes and how do they work?
(Top Stories)
Created on 04 October 2018
... aircraft to be accurately tracked by air traffic controllers and other pilots without the need for conventional radar. © Copyright Airservices Australia 2014 Secondary surveillance ...
Lessons to learn, despite another report on missing flight MH370 and still no explanation
(Top Stories)
Created on 31 July 2018
... to Vietnamese air traffic control. Communications with the aircraft were lost less than 40 minutes after takeoff. Both Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic controllers delayed initiation of emergency ...
Amika Mobile and Mobility Insight announce Connected Vehicle Systems for Intelligent Borders
(EQS Asia Business News)
Created on 30 October 2017
... products through partners. See www.amikamobile.com About Mobi: Mobi provides policy makers, transportation planners and traffic controllers with an advanced intelligent mobility system for today's traff ...
How pre-existing conditions became front and center in health care vote
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 05 May 2017
... (such as heparin, Zyrexa and Interferon) or occupations (such as miners, pilots and air traffic controllers). A congressional report found that 425 medical diagnoses have been used to decline coverage. ...
Obstacle avoidance: The challenge for drone package delivery
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 21 December 2016
... out radio waves and measures their reflections from obstacles. Radar is still used as the primary system for air traffic controllers to track planes in the sky. Ships also use radar to avoid collisions ...
How much should air traffic controllers trust new flight management systems?
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 23 November 2016
...  The system we use to coordinate all those flights carrying all those Thanksgiving travelers through the air is decades old, and mostly depends on highly trained air traffic controllers, who keep track ...
Trump and the GOP: the Silent Majority versus the establishment
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 28 January 2016
... the Professional Air Traffic Controller’s Union. George H. W. Bush, who had few pronounced political differences with Reagan, lacked the persona to bridge the elite/populist divide, and was subject ...
Labor's rank and file still believe in collective bargaining's power to bolster middle class
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 06 November 2015
... traffic controllers' strike in 1981 helped introduce a new lexicon to the world of labor negotiations. Where bargaining had previously produced consistent gains for workers, employers now felt empowered ...
America doesn't just 'need a raise,' we need a new national norm for wage growth
(The Conversation USA)
Created on 31 August 2015
... t Ronald Reagan’s firing of striking air traffic controllers signaled management could take a harder line again unions. Recent estimates indicate the decline in unions accounts for as much as 20%  ...
U.S. reconnaissance plane crosses into Sweden to avoid Russians - NY Times
(News Feeds)
Created on 04 August 2014
... e left Swedish airspace after Swedish air traffic controllers informed the aircraft of the mistake, the newspaper said. (Reporting by Eric Beech in Washington; Editing by Eric Walsh) Read more http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/04/uk-usa-russia-airplane-idUKKBN0G402T20140804?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNe ...