(Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)The White House on Monday will formally endorse a plan to spin off more than 30,000 federal workers into a private nonprofit corporation, separating the nation’s air traffic controllers and those who work on a $36 billion modernization program from the Federal Aviation Administration. Instead, Congress has expressed enormous frustration over the pace of the FAA’s modernization program, called NextGen. But it also gave Congress a single program to hold accountable when elements of NextGen moved slowly, or not at all. “It is unfathomable, even dangerous, to consider gambling with the future and safety of our air traffic control system through privatization,” PASS President Mike Perrone said in a statement last month. The wording of the White House paper may cause concern for union members who would go off the federal payroll.

Source: Washington Post June 05, 2017 11:26 UTC