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Retirements, hiring freeze squeeze nation's air traffic controllers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2004
By Blanca Torres, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 15--Because of a current hiring freeze and an aging work force ripe for retirement, the air traffic controllers union is calling on Congress to give $14 million to the Federal Aviation Administration to hire more controllers.
Jack Fader, a Gig Harbor resident and president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association local, said the situation is especially severe at the Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center in Auburn, where more than half of the staff controllers could retire in five years.
"We have a very senior work force here in Seattle," said Fader, who works at the Auburn control center and has been a controller for more than 22 years. "Right...
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