Rick Lowe
Reports are gaining momentum that the air traffic controllers are on go slow again and will make it clear to the travelling public that they have the right to inconvenience them and disrupt their travel plans because they can't get their way at this point in time.
There is a simple solution. Resign and go work where the terms are better for them. Inconveniencing the general public that pay their salaries through taxes is surely an unconscionable approach?
I hope the Minister of Transport has enough Defence Force or Police Officers trained that they can man their stations if they do walk off the job this weekend so they will not be missed.
By the way, enjoy your Easter weekend.
They should all be fired immediately no question.They are the most inconsiderate,selfish people in the Bahamas right now.All they are doing is making the public hate them even more.I have no sympathy for them what so ever.Our PM should to what president Regan did & fire them all.
Hi Rick,
I agree wholeheartedly with your synopsis of the ATC issue, however, I do find your piece symptomatic of most commentary on topical issues at home. Whilst I concur generally in what you say, I fear that it, like most commentary, deals only with the symptoms. Calling for the resignation of ATC (of whom I used to be one, BTW) or as another contributor said, for their firing a la Reagan, only deals with the issue superficially.
In my (humble) view, ‘collective bargaining/unionised activity’ is one of the worst problems facing our country. It is a throwback to the 1950’s, the heyday of the ‘worker’ but whereas many other countries have moved on, we’re still stuck in the past. In The Bahamas, we have continuousously ‘kid-gloved’ with this major millstone of an issue that has perenially restrained us, whilst constituting a barrier to more rapid and sustained economic development.
The unions might have been needed in the 1940’s & 50’s but now they need to be busted,period.They are taking things way past what they should,here,in the US & anywhere else in my opinion.Its just like our so called labor laws it only makes it very difficult for the employer to do what is sometimes necessary to do.Unions are at least half of our problems now as a country.If you don’t like being an ATC then do something else.Why is it that the government can do whatever necessary to please the unions but for crime you have to raise eternal hell & even then they don’t seem to move so quickly.