I had specific questions, and they could not answer them. The answers they did give just didn t make sense. Council 26 Exec. Adds Schniderman, Sometimes a crisis brings people together, and some of the problems at FAA have brought these employees together. Either way, public agency managers attempt to compensate workers on a system modeled after the private sector.
Management simply rewards workers based on subjective criteria.
By building a broad-based organizing campaign to protect hundreds of FAA professionals from management, the union is also preventing a situation in which workers are turned against themselves. With a subjective pay structure, workers compete among themselves for favor while management plays them against each other. In the end, the workers get caught short. At the onset of the campaign, some workers viewed unions negatively because they had never been in one. I d be a union member ever in my life, says Tom Waters of the FAA s Office of Chief Counsel.