Fire 'Overpaid' Air Traffic Controllers: Ryanair CEO

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Ireland's government should be tougher on striking "overpaid" public workers if it wants to help the country get out of the economic recession, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary told CNBC Thursday.


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Thousands of passengers were affected as the country's main airports in Dublin, Shannon and Cork were shut because of the strike which lasted four hours.

"The air traffic controllers are simply a bunch of overpaid, underworked public servants but they're typical for the problem in Ireland," O'Leary said.

He said traffic controllers' demands for a pay raise of 6 percent were unreasonable because they earn 160,000 euros a year ($224,000) and inflation is negative.



"Use the bloody law. We should arrest the air traffic controllers or better still, sack them," he said.

"If you don't want to work for 160,000 a year and you want a 6 percent pay increase, go and we'll get some people who will do the job," he added.

- Watch the full interview with Michael O'Leary above.

He cited President Ronald Reagan's firing of striking air traffic controllers in the early 1980s.

"We should do the same thing here, but for that we need politicians with leadership and with spine and sadly, in Ireland we have very few politicians that have either leadership or spines," O'Leary said.
 
Air traffic controllers have the most stressful job possible. They are not underworked.

Reagan should've been impeached for the atrocity of 1980.
 
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Topspin said:
Ireland's government should be tougher on striking "overpaid" public workers if it wants to help the country get out of the economic recession, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary told CNBC Thursday.


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Thousands of passengers were affected as the country's main airports in Dublin, Shannon and Cork were shut because of the strike which lasted four hours.

"The air traffic controllers are simply a bunch of overpaid, underworked public servants but they're typical for the problem in Ireland," O'Leary said.

He said traffic controllers' demands for a pay raise of 6 percent were unreasonable because they earn 160,000 euros a year ($224,000) and inflation is negative.



"Use the bloody law. We should arrest the air traffic controllers or better still, sack them," he said.

"If you don't want to work for 160,000 a year and you want a 6 percent pay increase, go and we'll get some people who will do the job," he added.

- Watch the full interview with Michael O'Leary above.

He cited President Ronald Reagan's firing of striking air traffic controllers in the early 1980s.

"We should do the same thing here, but for that we need politicians with leadership and with spine and sadly, in Ireland we have very few politicians that have either leadership or spines," O'Leary said.
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This guys a fucking Nazi. Air Traffic Controllers are some of the hardest working, most stressed out people I've ever known. I know ATC that Reagan fired. They hated the job. Thought it was so stressfull that they'd rather get fired then not do something to improve their working conditions. So they got fired. Nothing about that job has changed since. It's still an extremelly challenging and horribly stressfull job. You couldn't pay me enough to do it.
 
Atheistmark said:
Air traffic controllers have the most stressful job possible. They are not underworked.

Reagan should've been put in prison for the rest of his life for the atrocity of 1980.
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Not to mention that when he did fire the ATC's it opened the door to ass raping workers rights, essentially meaning your constitutional rights end at your employers door. Which is why drug testing is ominpresent in the workplace and why you can't enjoy your herb. You have Reagan to thank for that.
 
wow thats a big paycheck. i understand his frustration. Give them the option to go a year without pay for the good of the country. Once out of the recession increase training to flood the market with new controllers at lower pay grades then fire all that didnt take the paycut in 2010.
 
Atheistmark said:
Air traffic controllers have the most stressful job possible. They are not underworked.

Reagan should've been impeached for the atrocity of 1980.
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Reagan wasn't president in 1980, retard.

But its true that ATC is an extremely stressful job, which is why controllers get paid like 200k for it. Its one of those jobs that makes the military counterpart look like a chump.
 
Chapdog said:
wow thats a big paycheck. i understand his frustration. Give them the option to go a year without pay for the good of the country. Once out of the recession increase training to flood the market with new controllers at lower pay grades then fire all that didnt take the paycut in 2010.
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That is something you definitely do NOT want to even try. Having been an ATC for 6 years, I can tell you that 225k in a busy airport is crap pay for the stress you go through doing the job.
 
There's nothing that makes an American angrier than someone who's not getting as fucked in the ass by corporations as they are. You'd think that, instead of pulling them down to your level, you'd try to organize and raise yourself up there. But raising yourself up is, apparently, unamerican.
 
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