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OSHA Orders Pilot To Be Reinstated After Being Illegally Fired
Faced one night with a trip over mountainous terrain in a medical transport helicopter with a faulty emergency locator transmitter, a pilot refused to fly the unsafe aircraft and was later terminated in retaliation for doing so. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration followed. As a result, Air Methods Corp. was ordered to reinstate the pilot, pay $158,000 in back wages and $8,500 in damages, and remove disciplinary information from… (www.dol.gov) المزيد...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
There must be some mistake. I was told that the private sector doesn't need oversight.
there are folks staggering around who despise unions, still taking 40 hour work weeks, vacations, health care and retirement as something that just happened to appear. This case shows the need for strong union presence, for it is not that management is uniformly bad, just that managers are people too, just some of them say indefensible comments from time to time. Managers do no have the right, and in fact have the responsibility, not to place employees at unnecessary risk. Unions and management get to define what "unnecessary" gets to mean at this company, and the federal government owns the dictionary. It takes creative tension, which looks like union-management confrontation from time to time, to steer best a company . Meantime any pilot can say no go .
I'm one of those, but hardly stagger I've worked on both sides of that fence and prefer the side I landed on. There are some situations where there is no choice and tht's not good either.
Pilot in comand did the right thing!
It's a great thing OSHA hasn't been gutted yet by the tea baggers, oh but I'm sure they would like to so employees are forced to work (fly in this case) in unsafe conditions!
The FAA makes the regulations, not OSHA. To bring the TEA party into this was moronic.
Aaaaafirmative! Pilots are still regulated by the Labor Department even though FAA is the rule maker. The association works much like DOT and OSHA. Nevertheless, the TEA party which is not a party at all has nothing to do with the discussion. Look at OSHA as an enforcer.