Senators try a new tactic to reopen FAA's negotiations with controllers

Two senators have introduced a bill to address an issue that has stalled along with legislation reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration: the collective bargaining rights of FAA employees.

The Federal Aviation Administration Employee Retention Act (S. 3416), introduced last week by Sens. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., would require FAA and its unions to work with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service if contract negotiations reach an impasse, or adopt a mutually agreed-upon process to break the deadlock. If those methods failed, then the negotiations would go to binding arbitration and the bargaining unit could require that union members ratify the resulting agreement.

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