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This year, the agency has offered extra pay to help entice retirement-eligible controllers to stay on, while raising wages for early-career employees and stepping up recruitments to the air-traffic-controller academy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

Last winter's mail strike and this spring's air-traffic-controller "sick-out" dramatized the deep and spreading discontent among federal employees.

From Time Magazine Archive