The Trump Administration fired approximately 300 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees over the weekend as DOGE works to eliminate DEI and wasteful spending.
Last week it was reported that the Trump Admin was gearing up to fire probationary workers.
Hundreds of FAA employees received an email informing them of their termination.
David Spero, the national president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS), AFL-CIO, blasted the Trump Administration for firing FAA employees.
“We are troubled and disappointed by the administration’s decision to fire FAA probationary employees PASS represents without cause nor based on performance or conduct. Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address. Messages began arriving after 7 pm ET on February 14 and continued late into the night. It is possible that others will be notified over the weekend or literally barred from entering FAA buildings on Tuesday, February 18,” David Spero said.
“This decision did not consider the staffing needs of the FAA, which is already challenged by understaffing,” David Spero said in a statement. “Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”
Excerpt from NBC News:
The Trump administration fired hundreds of employees with the Federal Aviation Administration over the weekend, just weeks after a fatal crash in Washington, D.C., exposed understaffing at the agency.
The union representing the employees called the firings a “hastily made decision” that would increase the workload of a workforce already stretched thin. The union statement referred to the D.C. crash as well as two others in recent weeks across the country as evidence that it was not the time to cut back personnel at the agency.
A union spokesperson said close to 300 of its members received termination notices over the weekend, and those affected worked as maintenance mechanics, aeronautical information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistants as well as management and program assistants.
The FAA firings come amid reports that DEI policies led to the DCA crash.
Air traffic control whistleblowers said DEI hiring practices and the FAA’s “immunity program” led to the helicopter-plane collision near Reagan Airport last month.
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