The Trump government dismisses hundreds of employees on the Federal Aviation Administration and cuts a swad through staff weeks after staff shortages were mentioned as a factor in the deadly collision in the air on Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
David Spero, chairman of the professional aviation safety specialists, said that the first e -mails were sent to probation workers late on Friday evening.
He said that hundreds of knowledge had received that their employment was terminated.
Since he took office in January, President Donald Trump and his Sidekick Elon Musk have quickly reduced the federal workforce to save money.
However, sometimes their movements have a counterproductive effect on public safety. The administration, for example, had to move quickly to rent again from the energy department after civil servants realized that they were responsible for maintaining the stocks of nuclear weapons of the country.
On Thursday, the administration broadened its approach to the focus of probation employees, who have less protection.
An air traffic controller told The Associated Press that employees who were affected at the FAA included the maintenance of radar, landing and navigation assistance.
Spero said that messages started after 7 p.m. on Friday.
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“We are worried and disappointed by the decision of the administration to dismiss FAA recallation workers, represents nor reason, or based on performance or behavior,” he said.
“Several hundred employees have been affected with messages sent from an 'Exec order' Microsoft -e -Mail address, no official .gov -e -mail address.”
A FAA employee claimed that he was the target for comments he made about the companies of Musk.
“Before I was fired, the official Doge Facebook page started to bother me on my personal Facebook account after I criticized Tesla and Twitter,” Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander wrote on LinkedIn and described how he was fired after Saturday on Saturday.
“Less than a week later I was fired, even though my position would have been exempt because of national security.”
The dismissals come in a critical time for the FAA, which was already confronted with a shortage of controllers.
For years, civil servants have warned that overworked and under -occupied air traffic control systems were an accident that waited.
Last month, 67 people died in a crash between a Black Hawk helicopter of the US Army and a passenger jet from American Airlines.
The causes are still being investigated. But early reports revealed that the personnel levels were 'not normal', and that a single controller used helicopter traffic and traffic at the airport.
Days later, a medical jet crashed in Philadelphia who killed all six people on board.
Spero emphasized the human costs of firing so many people during a stroke.
'These are not unnamed, face -free bureaucrats. They are our family, friends and neighbors. They contribute to our communities, “he said.
'Many military veterans are among them.
“It is embarrassing to throw up dedicated officials who have chosen to work on behalf of their fellow -Americans.”
