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Illinois senators blast FAA administrator for holding air traffic controller raises "hostage"
By
Kris Van Cleave
Updated on: September 4, 2026 / 7:20 PM EDT / CBS News
The Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act set aside $140 million to give controllers a 3.8% pay raise, but they have so far only received the 1% raise given to all government employees.
Exclusive
Illinois senators blast FAA administrator for holding air traffic controller raises "hostage"
By
Kris Van Cleave
Updated on: September 4, 2026 / 7:20 PM EDT / CBS News

Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin ripped into Bedford for his "inaction" in implementing a wage increase for air traffic…

Federal Aviation Administrator Bryan Bedford says the agency needs to improve how it uses its existing workforce before he will…

Air traffic controllers are still waiting on a congressionally funded 2.8% pay increase, as a shortage has strained the workforce.

The federal shutdown has deprived the nation's air traffic controllers of full paychecks for the first time on Tuesday, which has…

Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said workers have gone too long without paychecks to…

A DOD IG report warns that shortages of civilian air traffic controllers are having nefarious effects across the armed forces.