President Spero’s testimony<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The PASS leader addressed current staffing shortages at the agency and the failure of the FAA to develop and implement a technician workforce plans in collaboration with the union. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe FAA has been developing the Tech Ops staffing model for over a decade yet they are fully aware that today, they are short at least 800 technicians,\u201d Spero said. \u201cWhile PASS does not agree that the model is factoring in all the necessary data to determine the optimum number of technicians, it clearly reveals an understaffed workforce.\u201d This is an issue PASS brought before a House committee earlier this year. While the media focuses on the shortage of air traffic controllers when reporting on non-weather-related flight delays, the shortage of FAA technicians is just as acute.The consequence of insufficient technician staffing manifests in increased restoration times during an equipment outage and more air traffic delays for the American flying public. <\/p>\n
The most significant result of the PASS survey was the clear indication that FAA employees, if adequately staffed, are capable and willing to perform the work to ensure successful implementation of new systems and equipment while also maintaining the aging system as efficiently as possible. \u201cThe biggest challenge from our perspective is a lack of vision on behalf of the agency,\u201d said Spero.<\/p>\n
The FAA is simply not effectively using a key resource to address some of its challenges. \u201cThe agency is ignoring the skill level and potential of more than 4,000 employees,\u201d said President Spero. \u201cThe resources for the FAA to be more effective are there; the FAA is not taking advantage of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
He concluded by stressing that PASS and the employees it represents stand ready to assist lawmakers and the FAA to ensure the safety of the American flying public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, David Spero, national president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, AFL-CIO (PASS), testified in front of Congress to address aging systems maintained by employees PASS represents at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); the lack of adequate staffing among the technician workforce and the fact that the agency is not using a vital resource in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainsite.maxesio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}