An air traffic controllers strike submit Spain to the chaos

[August]

Originally Posted by Penguin

If you want a decline in air traffic safety then that's the way to go!

Aren't staging sick outs also a decline in air traffic safety?

Besides:

Originally Posted by from the op article

The dispute intensified in February when the government restricted overtime and thus cut average pay of controllers from euro350,000 ($463,610) a year to around euro200,000 ($264,920).

Two points here.

1. Overtime means tired workers. Tired workers make mistakes and ATC is a job where mistakes often cost lives, so it'd be difficult to convince me that restricting overtime is a bad thing.

2. Being paid over a quarter million bucks a year classifies you as "rich" in my country.

So what it looks like we're talking about here is a bunch of highly paid government workers upset that they might eventually have to go to work in the private sector? If that's the case Boo hoo I say.