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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> public school employees haven’t been properly paid for their summer work, union leaders said as teachers return to their classrooms this week, just over a month after the district rolled out a replacement for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight\">faulty payroll system\u003c/a> at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the teachers’ union’s state labor complaint filed Monday against the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco Unified School District\u003c/a>, some members’ paychecks were delayed or missing, their hours were miscalculated or their union dues went undeducted in the first six weeks since the new system launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As they processed the first couple of checks for maybe a couple hundred employees who had worked over summer, many of the same excuses started to emerge, which was, ‘We didn’t account for these unique circumstances,’ and all of a sudden, people were not receiving their full pay,” said Frank Lara, the executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payroll has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922273/as-new-school-year-begins-some-s-f-teachers-still-havent-been-paid-what-theyre-owed-sfusd\">a thorn in the district’s side\u003c/a> since 2022, when it implemented the costly EMPower system that left some employees with incorrect paychecks, and others without pay at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over two years, the district tried to resolve issues with the buggy software, spending more than $30 million and ultimately angering thousands of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, Lara estimated that at least 3,000 of the union’s members had issues getting paid through EMPower and filed more than 10,000 issue tickets with district staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, the district rolled out a new system, operated by Frontline and Red Rover, that Superintendent Maria Su assured the school board and district employees would operate more smoothly and reliably. That software cost the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044768/sf-school-district-unveils-balanced-budget-after-cutting-over-110-million-in-spending\">cash-strapped district\u003c/a> $20 million more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After careful deliberation with our teams, I am pleased to announce that we will be able to proceed with the transition to Frontline as scheduled on July 1,” Su told reporters in June. “And we’ve done all the due diligence to make sure we are going to be able to do it and not have the hiccups of last time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since July, Lara said about 150 of the union’s 500 or so members who worked over the summer have had payroll issues.[aside postID=news_12048313 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/SanFranciscoK8SchoolGetty.jpg']Some teachers who worked at district-sponsored enrichment programs over the summer didn’t receive pay at all; others never had union dues deducted from their paychecks like they were supposed to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other employees were paid at the incorrect rate or had their paychecks delayed for weeks, among other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that going into the implementation of Frontline, there were going to be challenges. … with the implementation of any software and program, especially built on top of a system that we know struggled and did not work for our school district,” said Phil Kim, the president of San Francisco’s Board of Education. “The question I think that I’ve been posing to staff and making sure that the superintendent prioritizes is: ‘How fast are we able to resolve these issues?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the union has been especially disappointed by how the district is handling the problems, Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we raised the alarm, we were shocked at how dismissive the staff was in terms of the very real concerns,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When a problem arises, everybody starts blaming each other. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:45 a.m. Sunday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A potential strike involving thousands of unionized Safeway employees has been averted after they came to a tentative agreement with the grocery giant early Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tentative agreement came after five months of negotiations, and gives workers a wage increase, a stronger pension plan, improved scheduling and affordable healthcare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a hard-earned and inspiring victory,” said UFCW Local 5 President John Frahm and UFCW Local 648 President Dan Larson in a joint statement. “Because our members stood together—strong and unshakable—they secured a contract that reflects their value and delivers real improvements for their families and futures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders said they plan to schedule ratification votes in the coming days, and are confident members will sign off on the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased to have reached a fair and equitable tentative agreement with the UFCW locals in Northern California,” wrote Justin Hendrickson, a spokesperson for Safeway. “We appreciate the union’s partnership in reaching a contract that will benefit our associates and allow us to continue to serve our customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike — originally scheduled to begin Saturday morning — was put on hold as members of United Food and Commercial Workers attempted to get higher wages and better and more affordable medical benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Araby, spokesperson for UFCW Local 5, said in a statement Saturday morning that the union gave a midnight deadline “to get a deal done.” If not, union members will be on strike beginning at 12:01 a.m. Sunday “at numerous locations across Northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While members voted to authorize a strike earlier this month, they cited “incremental progress toward a tentative agreement members can review and vote on,” according to a \u003ca href=\"https://ufcw5.org/2025/07/safeway-and-vons-workers-temporarily-extend-strike-deadline/\">joint statement\u003c/a> published early Saturday morning by three UFCW local chapters that represent workers across California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This recognition of our pressure and member solidarity is working,” UFCW Local 5 President John Frahm, UFCW 8-Golden State President Jacques Loveall, and UFCW Local 648 President Dan Larson in a joint statement. “Our members remain mobilized and ready, but as long as talks are advancing toward a fair deal, we will continue to bargain in good faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area residents may have to change their grocery shopping plans this weekend as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/safeway\">Safeway\u003c/a> workers in Northern California threaten to go on strike Saturday if a labor contract is not secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 20,000 workers represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers could walk out if a strike is called, which the union said would happen if they don’t reach an agreement with Safeway by Friday night. The labor group is seeking higher wages and increased benefits for grocery store employees, among other concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been in round-the-clock negotiations since yesterday morning and continuing through the day. There’s been some progress, but not enough as it stands,” Jim Araby, a spokesperson for UFCW Local 5 in Hayward, said Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While UFCW and Safeway leaders are still at the bargaining table alongside a federal mediator, Araby is skeptical they will be able to reach an agreement and have workers vote on it before the union’s deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 200 Safeway stores could be blocked by picket lines if a strike occurs, Araby said, adding that 95% of union members voted to approve the strike earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers have been unable to keep up with exorbitant cost-of-living increases in the Bay Area, and health care costs have also gone up for the union’s members, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12049786\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12049786\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00251_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00251_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00251_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/20250117_Safeway-Injuries_DMB_00251_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tractor trailer exits Safeway’s Northern California Distribution Center in Tracy, on Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Safeway said in a statement that the company is committed to engaging in good-faith negotiations with UFCW Local 5 and other labor groups in Northern California, while also balancing the needs of customers and the corporation’s growth in a “highly competitive grocery industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we are disappointed that the unions have indicated the possibility of a strike at some of our stores, we fully respect our associates’ right to engage in collective bargaining,” the statement reads. “We are hopeful a resolution will be reached soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safeway and its parent company, Albertsons, can afford to give workers better wages and benefits, Araby said, noting that the parent company reported a net income of \u003ca href=\"https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/newsroom/press-releases/news-details/2025/Albertsons-Companies-Inc--Reports-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-Results/default.aspx\">nearly $1 billion\u003c/a> last year and paid stockholders a $4 billion dividend in 2023.[aside postID=news_12048733 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GarbageContainersGetty.jpg']“We know they’re doing well,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since word of a potential strike has spread, workers have reported seeing signs advertising that the company is looking for replacement workers. While union members negotiate for more equitable wages, Safeway plans on paying their temporary replacements $27 per hour — more than most of its workers make, Araby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most members feel like it was a massive slap in the face,” he said. “It’s definitely influenced our members to want to go out on strike. … It’s a typical tactic by employers to try to bring up doubt among the rank and file.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a busy few months for labor groups in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early July, more than 2,000 workers across the country went on strike after months of labor negotiations with waste management company \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048733/trash-is-still-piling-up-as-republic-services-workers-strike-heres-what-to-know\">Republic Services\u003c/a> hit a standstill. A tentative agreement was reached between the parties last week, after Bay Area residents and officials issued complaints about trash piling up on sidewalks and in driveways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Araby, the increase in labor action speaks to workers’ increased frustrations about low wages, poor benefits and other labor conditions. The disparity between employers and their workers is growing, and people are fed up with wealthy corporations not treating their employees fairly, he said, adding that whether workers decide to keep going is up to companies like Safeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re interested in bringing forth a proposal that our members will be able to vote for. We want to avoid a work stoppage,” he said. “But our members have been clear to us that they’re ready to take one if the deal is not good enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s worker safety agency is under-inspecting workplaces after accidents and worker injuries, failing to enforce labor regulations in a way that “may undermine” them because it does not have enough employees to do the inspections, a state audit found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/2024-115/\">review\u003c/a> of the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health published Thursday, state auditors found understaffing was a primary factor leading inspectors to skip in-person inspections of worksites even in cases where auditors found — and division managers agreed — it was likely warranted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly one-third of the division’s 800-plus positions were vacant last year, a rate that is even worse in some district offices and among some of the staff responsible for inspections and enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it does perform inspections, Cal/OSHA’s process has critical weaknesses,” state auditor Grant Parks wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weaknesses, he wrote, included inspectors failing to review employers’ required injury prevention plans, document notes from interviews with workers, initiate inspections quickly and ensure employers had addressed alleged hazards before closing a case file.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law allows Cal/OSHA to inspect workplaces in-person proactively, after accidents or in response to a complaint. But it only mandates inspections for workplace deaths or “serious” accidents, generally defined as those requiring inpatient hospital care or resulting in “serious permanent disfiguration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enforcement staff first determine if the complaints are valid, and then often choose to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/10/cal-osha-response-covid-complaints/\">inspect “by letter”\u003c/a> instead, which involves writing to employers asking them to investigate the complaints themselves and document how they’ve addressed hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11989885 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240322-INDOOR-HEAT-GETTY-02-KQED-1020x623.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year out of more than 12,000 complaints, the agency found 87% valid; staff inspected just 17% of those workplaces in person rather than investigating “by letter.” Out of 5,800 workplace accidents, the agency deemed 42% serious enough to send an inspector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors found staff didn’t always investigate a complaint or inspect a worksite when they should have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, a union representative filed a complaint saying that construction workers were riding on heavy machinery on the road with no seat belts, and another worker was hanging off the side of the vehicle, in danger of falling and being hit in oncoming traffic. Cal/OSHA declined to investigate because the incident was on a public road and therefore outside the agency’s jurisdiction. But the audit found the agency should have opened the complaint because workers were riding in a company vehicle — activity covered by workplace safety regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors reviewed another complaint from a kitchen worker who was taken to the ER by ambulance, possibly from heat illness. The worker reported poor ventilation, broken air conditioning and temperatures that reached 90 degrees indoors. Despite agency policies requiring on-site inspections for serious hazards involving current employees, and for any heat-related complaints, Cal/OSHA sent the employer a letter. Auditors reviewing the case records found the employer had not responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Serious injuries investigated by letter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audit also highlighted two injuries that Cal/OSHA said weren’t “serious” enough to inspect in person; in one, a worker was cut by a chainsaw, requiring surgery and an overnight hospital stay, and in another a worker was knocked out when hit in the head and suffered a skull fracture, but was not formally admitted to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the chainsaw case, managers told auditors the worker was wearing protective equipment so there was less reason to suspect workplace violations. In general, the audit found that managers overwhelmingly reported understaffing as the reason for not inspecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, the audit noted, doesn’t have a complaint form on its website. To file a complaint, workers must call or email a Cal/OSHA district office, or fill out a complaint form on the federal OSHA website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit places further pressure on Cal/OSHA and its beleaguered parent agency, the Department of Industrial Relations, to deal with a trenchant staffing problem that advocates and lawmakers say renders some of the strictest worker protections in the nation toothless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes a year after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/05/california-wage-theft-audit-labor-commissioner/\">a similar audit of the Labor Commissioner’s Office\u003c/a>, also a part of that department, which found workers complaining to the agency about wage theft were waiting more than two years on average to get their claims resolved — six times longer than the time required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both audits were ordered by state lawmakers, who are by now familiar with the understaffing complaints. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB694\">One bill \u003c/a>this year would require the department to study how to make more appealing career paths for the inspector positions, some of which require engineering degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Knight, director of the advocacy group Worksafe, called the audit’s findings “really disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It confirms that California’s promise to hold employers accountable remains unfulfilled,” Knight said. “There’s a lot of good solid detail and suggestions in the audit, nothing they couldn’t have figured out beforehand. Certainly what it would require is resources and political leadership that sides with workers over corner-cutting employers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is urgent, he said, noting workplace accidents have killed three teenagers in California just the past two weeks: one \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/young-worker-dies-falling-meat-grinder-frozen-burrito-factory\">who fell into a meat grinder\u003c/a> at a burrito factory in Los Angeles County and two who died \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/explosion-fire-esparto-yolo-county/\">in a fireworks warehouse explosion\u003c/a> in rural Yolo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workplace agency has been the subject of several investigations in recent years. 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Hagen wrote that Cal/OSHA’s vacancy rate had dropped to 12% this year; the auditor responded they hadn’t seen up-to-date data showing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagen also wrote that Cal/OSHA is working on making an online complaint form, and said the agency is getting a new case management system that will flag cases that should have gotten an in-person inspection, but didn’t. Both upgrades, she wrote, are expected in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What’s the point?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audit also questioned Cal/OSHA’s practice of reducing the fines it issued to employers after citing them for safety violations. Employers often appeal citations, a process that can take years to resolve, and the fines or violations can be reduced during settlement conferences, but the auditors wrote that the reasons aren’t always documented. 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But the audit found the agency should have opened the complaint because workers were riding in a company vehicle — activity covered by workplace safety regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors reviewed another complaint from a kitchen worker who was taken to the ER by ambulance, possibly from heat illness. The worker reported poor ventilation, broken air conditioning and temperatures that reached 90 degrees indoors. Despite agency policies requiring on-site inspections for serious hazards involving current employees, and for any heat-related complaints, Cal/OSHA sent the employer a letter. Auditors reviewing the case records found the employer had not responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Serious injuries investigated by letter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audit also highlighted two injuries that Cal/OSHA said weren’t “serious” enough to inspect in person; in one, a worker was cut by a chainsaw, requiring surgery and an overnight hospital stay, and in another a worker was knocked out when hit in the head and suffered a skull fracture, but was not formally admitted to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the chainsaw case, managers told auditors the worker was wearing protective equipment so there was less reason to suspect workplace violations. In general, the audit found that managers overwhelmingly reported understaffing as the reason for not inspecting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, the audit noted, doesn’t have a complaint form on its website. To file a complaint, workers must call or email a Cal/OSHA district office, or fill out a complaint form on the federal OSHA website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit places further pressure on Cal/OSHA and its beleaguered parent agency, the Department of Industrial Relations, to deal with a trenchant staffing problem that advocates and lawmakers say renders some of the strictest worker protections in the nation toothless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It comes a year after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/05/california-wage-theft-audit-labor-commissioner/\">a similar audit of the Labor Commissioner’s Office\u003c/a>, also a part of that department, which found workers complaining to the agency about wage theft were waiting more than two years on average to get their claims resolved — six times longer than the time required by law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both audits were ordered by state lawmakers, who are by now familiar with the understaffing complaints. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB694\">One bill \u003c/a>this year would require the department to study how to make more appealing career paths for the inspector positions, some of which require engineering degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephen Knight, director of the advocacy group Worksafe, called the audit’s findings “really disappointing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It confirms that California’s promise to hold employers accountable remains unfulfilled,” Knight said. “There’s a lot of good solid detail and suggestions in the audit, nothing they couldn’t have figured out beforehand. Certainly what it would require is resources and political leadership that sides with workers over corner-cutting employers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is urgent, he said, noting workplace accidents have killed three teenagers in California just the past two weeks: one \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/young-worker-dies-falling-meat-grinder-frozen-burrito-factory\">who fell into a meat grinder\u003c/a> at a burrito factory in Los Angeles County and two who died \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/explosion-fire-esparto-yolo-county/\">in a fireworks warehouse explosion\u003c/a> in rural Yolo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workplace agency has been the subject of several investigations in recent years. Last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article283078973.html\">the Sacramento Bee found\u003c/a> the division of Cal/OSHA that recommends cases for criminal prosecution was so understaffed it couldn’t even consider cases in which workers suffered severe but nonfatal accidents, such as ones that caused paralysis. CalMatters last year reported that the agency’s inspections and citations of heat-related hazards had \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/08/california-farmworkers-heat-illness/\">plummeted since the pandemic\u003c/a>, despite the rising risks of extreme heat for outdoor workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter dated June 27 responding to the audit, Department of Industrial Relations director Katrina Hagen wrote that the department “has been working to address structural and process issues, as well as recruitment and retention issues,” including studying the agency’s pay and job responsibility levels. Hagen wrote that Cal/OSHA’s vacancy rate had dropped to 12% this year; the auditor responded they hadn’t seen up-to-date data showing that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hagen also wrote that Cal/OSHA is working on making an online complaint form, and said the agency is getting a new case management system that will flag cases that should have gotten an in-person inspection, but didn’t. Both upgrades, she wrote, are expected in 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What’s the point?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audit also questioned Cal/OSHA’s practice of reducing the fines it issued to employers after citing them for safety violations. Employers often appeal citations, a process that can take years to resolve, and the fines or violations can be reduced during settlement conferences, but the auditors wrote that the reasons aren’t always documented. 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"content": "\u003cp>When a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5324543/ntsb-dca-mid-air-collision-american-black-hawk\">midair collision\u003c/a> and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/g-s1-68333/newark-air-traffic-controller-atc\">series of radar outages\u003c/a> captured attention in the United States this year, some air traffic controllers thought it might finally lead to solutions for a nationwide staffing shortage and other longstanding problems at the country’s air traffic facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s talking about us,” said one controller who works at a facility in the Midwest that handles high-altitude traffic. “You have that one moment of like, ‘oh, some hope. Hey, they see us out here.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that controller watched with growing dismay as the response from federal officials and union leaders coalesced around an effort to upgrade equipment and ramp up hiring. The plan failed to address some other long-held concerns of many air traffic controllers, such as grueling schedules, stagnating pay and an onerous process for taking paid time off, the controller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The morale just really plummets at that point,” said the controller, who asked NPR not to use their name because they’re not authorized to speak publicly and are worried about retaliation from the Federal Aviation Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not a word of it is about anything that’s going to actually help controllers in the not even just short term, but the mid-term,” they said. “Honestly, it’s more demoralizing than if they weren’t talking about us at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-1-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy holds a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport, where he announced the reopening of a major runway at the airport, nearly 2 weeks ahead of schedule in Newark, N.J., on June 2.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has made rebuilding the national air traffic control system a priority in his first few months on the job. He’s vowed to “supercharge” the hiring of new controllers, and the Trump administration is also seeking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5391297/air-traffic-control-system-overhaul-modernization\">completely overhaul the technology\u003c/a> used in air traffic facilities across the country, including radar and telecommunications equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Congress approved $12.5 billion for that purpose in the budget reconciliation law.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Duffy called that funding an important “down payment,” though he said it would ultimately take a total of roughly $31 billion to finish the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12033338 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1243270396-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to make air travel not just safer, but also more efficient,” Duffy said Wednesday during \u003ca href=\"https://transportation.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=408886\">a hearing\u003c/a> of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. “State of the art, gold-plated, best in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many air traffic controllers say problems with the U.S. air traffic system run deeper than outdated equipment. Some have vented their frustrations anonymously on social media platforms \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@doaviation/video/7506983705282596142\">like TikTok\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/atc2/\">Reddit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke to five current and former air traffic controllers for this story. (Most requested anonymity because they are also worried about retaliation from the FAA.) While several controllers welcomed the additional investment in modernized equipment, they were also skeptical that the Trump administration could achieve its goals as quickly as promised. All of them said the FAA is overlooking\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>critical quality-of-life concerns among controllers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, they say they’re expected to work under stressful conditions each day to keep the complex U.S. air travel system operating, in part by working mandatory overtime and six-day workweeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Passengers] get to go where they want to go because controllers are showing up to work six days a week. And they’re tired, they’re exhausted,” said the controller who works in the Midwest center. “But they’re still showing up and doing an amazing job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Staffing shortages squeeze controllers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048864\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-2-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., several days after an American Airlines jet collided in midair with a military Black Hawk helicopter, killing 67 people. \u003ccite>(Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Problems in the nation’s air traffic system were well known within the aviation industry. But they burst into public view in January, when an American Airlines regional jet and an U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5280403/map-plane-helicopter-crash-washington-dc\">collided in midair\u003c/a> near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA25MA108%20Prelim.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a preliminary report\u003c/a> from the National Transportation Safety Board, the duties of several air traffic controllers in the local control tower had been combined at the time of the incident, though it’s not clear if that played any role in the collision. Still, the accident focused national attention on the controller staffing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the facility that handles traffic around Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/g-s1-68333/newark-air-traffic-controller-atc\">a series of radar and telecommunication outages\u003c/a> in April and May, forcing thousands of delays, diversions and cancellations at one of the nation’s busiest airports. When some controllers took trauma leave to recover from the impact of those outages, that only \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/05/13/nx-s1-5396838/newark-airport-three-radar-controllers-monitored-airspace-faa\">exacerbated the staffing shortage\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12027050 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-1940010763-1-1020x680.jpg']The roots of the air traffic controller shortage go all the way back to 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025018833/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-air-traffic-controllers\">fired more than 11,000 controllers\u003c/a> who had gone on strike to protest what they considered to be unfair wages and long work hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set off a scramble to hire and train thousands of new air traffic controllers. In some areas, the effort succeeded, but facilities that handle some of the busiest and most complex airspace in the world have always been difficult to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the FAA has struggled to hire enough controllers to keep pace with retirements — hiring only two-thirds of the controllers called for by its own staffing models, \u003ca href=\"https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29112/the-air-traffic-controller-workforce-imperative-staffing-models-and-their\">according to a recent study\u003c/a> by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The problem was made more acute by the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted in-person training at the FAA’s academy in Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA currently has \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/afn/offices/finance/offices/office-financial-labor-analysis/plans/controller-workforce\">fewer than 11,000 certified controllers\u003c/a>, more than 3,000 short of its nationwide target. As a result, many are regularly assigned to work a sixth workday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.natca.org/2025/06/18/national-academies-of-sciences-report-doubles-down-on-failed-controller-staffing-model/\">According to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association\u003c/a>, over 41% of certified air traffic controllers work “10-hour days, six days a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in addition to the taxing schedules many controllers already work, including weekend, overnight and rotating shifts. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/media/Fatigue_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independent report\u003c/a> commissioned by the FAA found last year that a common controller schedule known as the “rattler” can create “known fatigue risks” and should be eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Air traffic control outages, runway construction and staffing shortages contributed to hundreds of delays and cancellations. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Staying alert at work is critical for controllers tasked with ensuring planes don’t collide and sequencing them for takeoff and landing, said one current air traffic controller at a terminal radar approach control facility (or TRACON) in the central U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have an off day. We can’t have a day where we come in and say, ‘oh, I’m just kind of not feeling it today. I’m just going to, you know, kind of cruise through the day.’ We don’t get that chance,” they said. “You walk into work and you have to be 100% mistake-free essentially in your entire career or, you know, people die.”[aside postID=news_12033814 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250211-SkyDaddy-08-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Controllers also report that it can be difficult to take paid time off. They “bid” for leave in the fall for the following year based on seniority, and requests for time off on shorter notice — what’s known as “spot leave” — may be denied due to a lack of staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became harder and harder to take leave, to plan family vacations, to even get spot leave if you needed time off for your kid’s baseball game or soccer game,” said one retired air traffic controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just became more of a shift towards spot leave being denied and feeling like, ‘OK, I need this time off because family is important, so I’m going to take sick leave now,'” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the union that represents controllers across the country said he understands how hard they’re being pushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are asking the world of them right now,” said Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, in an NPR interview. “Every single person has a right to be frustrated right now. When you are extremely short-staffed, you don’t have working equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the FAA said it was making it a priority to bolster the air traffic controller ranks by “taking a multi-pronged approach to recruit new controllers, improve training success rates and reduce overall training times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA is expanding academy training by nearly 30%, shortening the hiring process by five months and partnering with colleges and universities to prepare more students for careers in air traffic control, the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nobody’s talking about pay’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Still, some controllers argue they should be paid more to compensate for the grueling working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re missing huge chunks of the prime time of our lives with our families to keep airplanes moving,” said the controller who works high-altitude traffic. “We love our job. But, you know, I want to be paid fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said he has heard that message, too. “I go visit facilities every single week,” said the union president. “One of the main topics is pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Daniels, the president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, D.C., on May 1. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the Trump administration slashing staffing across the federal government, the union has not pushed publicly for a raise. Still, Daniels said the union is looking to find areas of agreement with the administration, which is why the union has supported the effort to modernize equipment and hire more staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The equipment has to be addressed,” Daniels said. “12 and a half billion dollars is a good start to where we need to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said he expects that the administration’s push to hire more controllers will yield tangible results, possibly ending the staffing shortage within four to five years. “Those things will start to reduce the stresses and pressures of the mandatory overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one union member said that does little to ease the pressure on controllers right now — even as many in the government and the general public praise them for doing a critical job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you’re hearing in the news is staffing [and] equipment, staffing [and] equipment, staffing [and] equipment. Nobody’s talking about pay,” said the high-altitude controller. “The union should be out here every single day talking about pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FAA air traffic controllers have been working under the same contract since 2016. It’s been extended twice since then — once in 2021 and again \u003ca href=\"https://www.natca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NATCA_MOU_Executed_121824.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last December\u003c/a> — which means their salary ranges haven’t been renegotiated in nearly a decade and won’t be again for at least four more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say that air traffic controller pay hasn’t gone up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.natca.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016NATCACBABookmarks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Their contract\u003c/a> gives controllers a 1.6% “length of service adjustment” each June. They also receive the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalpay.org/gs/raises\">raises given to most federal employees\u003c/a> at the beginning of each year at the discretion of the president and Congress. President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/trump-proposes-no-2026-raise-for-employees-cuts-in-non-defense-agencies/\">has proposed no raise\u003c/a> for federal workers next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certified controllers receive a starting salary between $70,876 and $152,426 or higher, based on the facility where they work. In the last fiscal year, the average certified controller earned a salary of about $155,000, according to the FAA, plus overtime and other premiums that push the total cash compensation to an average of $193,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a pay raise would help compensate for rising inflation and the added pressures of the job, controllers say, and give a much-needed boost to controllers working at lower-level facilities in high-cost-of-living areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was running for NATCA president last summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cgtyKrFAc0\">Daniels said\u003c/a> he would work to reset controllers’ pay bands “in 2026 when we go to the negotiating table,” but as president he extended the contract to 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Daniels said circumstances had changed since the Trump administration came to power and began slashing the federal workforce. The union stood to lose more than it would gain from reopening the contract, Daniels said. So it’s taking a more cautious approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has to be very strategic, and it has to be in conjunction with this administration and the direction that they’re going to go,” he said. “You can’t be short-sighted when you’re talking about 15,000 peoples’ lives. And just screaming pay to scream pay is short-sighted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union could also push for other financial benefits besides raises, such as premium pay for working Saturdays and changes to overtime pay, the controller added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next for U.S. air traffic controllers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planes are parked at Newark Liberty International Airport on May 6. Hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled because of equipment malfunctions at the facility that handles traffic around the airport. \u003ccite>(Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Controllers who spoke to NPR offered mixed reviews of the steps being taken by the Trump administration to address problems at U.S. air traffic control facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Transportation Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-new-package-boost-air-traffic-controller\">Duffy’s plan to staff up\u003c/a> the workforce includes $5,000 bonuses for recent academy graduates and lump sum payments to encourage controllers eligible for retirement to stay on the job longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not one silver bullet to shoot on air traffic control,” Duffy told lawmakers on Wednesday. “We have to take all of these multiple steps to move as quickly as possible, to get more young people into the business of air traffic control, and keep more of those experienced controllers on the payroll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But controllers lament that no similar incentives are being offered to the rest of the air traffic controller workforce, the career employees responsible for the day-to-day task of maintaining order in U.S. skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am happy for them. I’m glad they’re getting it. They deserve every penny of it,” the TRACON controller said of academy graduates and those eligible for retirement. “But it should’ve been for the entire workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the equipment upgrades, one controller said they were glad the FAA was finally replacing faulty and outdated gear, while another criticized the decision to pay for new technology before wage increases. The retired controller questioned the wisdom of swapping the paper strips controllers use to sequence planes with a digital alternative. “It’s a great system. It doesn’t need to be fixed,” they said. “If it’s not broke, why fix it? It’s not broke at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA said in a statement that the new air traffic control system will “enhance safety in the sky, reduce delays, and unlock the future of air travel” and would also ensure that “hard-working air traffic controllers have a system they can rely on and one they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some controllers, though, the long-standing problems at the FAA have pushed them to look for work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. air traffic controller Chris Dickinson recently left the FAA after feeling burnt out at the agency. He found a job with Airservices Australia, and he and his family moved to the country in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickinson said he understands the stresses facing his friends and former colleagues back in the U.S. “I hope it changes for them, because it’s a fantastic job, a wonderful, wonderful career,” he said. “But it just sucks right now because there’s no staffing, morale’s crap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was after a family vacation to Sydney two years ago that Dickinson began to consider the move. While on the trip, he told several Australian air traffic controllers he met that he had never had weekends off during his career except for a few holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were just completely blown away at the fact that anyone could go, like, more than six months without having weekends off, let alone 12 and a half years at that point,” Dickinson said. “And it really made me kind of look back and go, ‘What is it that I’m willing to accept in my short amount of time on this Earth?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The roots of the air traffic controller shortage go all the way back to 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1025018833/looking-back-on-when-president-reagan-fired-air-traffic-controllers\">fired more than 11,000 controllers\u003c/a> who had gone on strike to protest what they considered to be unfair wages and long work hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set off a scramble to hire and train thousands of new air traffic controllers. In some areas, the effort succeeded, but facilities that handle some of the busiest and most complex airspace in the world have always been difficult to staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past decade, the FAA has struggled to hire enough controllers to keep pace with retirements — hiring only two-thirds of the controllers called for by its own staffing models, \u003ca href=\"https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/29112/the-air-traffic-controller-workforce-imperative-staffing-models-and-their\">according to a recent study\u003c/a> by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The problem was made more acute by the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted in-person training at the FAA’s academy in Oklahoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA currently has \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/afn/offices/finance/offices/office-financial-labor-analysis/plans/controller-workforce\">fewer than 11,000 certified controllers\u003c/a>, more than 3,000 short of its nationwide target. As a result, many are regularly assigned to work a sixth workday. \u003ca href=\"https://www.natca.org/2025/06/18/national-academies-of-sciences-report-doubles-down-on-failed-controller-staffing-model/\">According to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association\u003c/a>, over 41% of certified air traffic controllers work “10-hour days, six days a week.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in addition to the taxing schedules many controllers already work, including weekend, overnight and rotating shifts. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/media/Fatigue_Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independent report\u003c/a> commissioned by the FAA found last year that a common controller schedule known as the “rattler” can create “known fatigue risks” and should be eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-3-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Air traffic control outages, runway construction and staffing shortages contributed to hundreds of delays and cancellations. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Staying alert at work is critical for controllers tasked with ensuring planes don’t collide and sequencing them for takeoff and landing, said one current air traffic controller at a terminal radar approach control facility (or TRACON) in the central U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t have an off day. We can’t have a day where we come in and say, ‘oh, I’m just kind of not feeling it today. I’m just going to, you know, kind of cruise through the day.’ We don’t get that chance,” they said. “You walk into work and you have to be 100% mistake-free essentially in your entire career or, you know, people die.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Controllers also report that it can be difficult to take paid time off. They “bid” for leave in the fall for the following year based on seniority, and requests for time off on shorter notice — what’s known as “spot leave” — may be denied due to a lack of staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It became harder and harder to take leave, to plan family vacations, to even get spot leave if you needed time off for your kid’s baseball game or soccer game,” said one retired air traffic controller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just became more of a shift towards spot leave being denied and feeling like, ‘OK, I need this time off because family is important, so I’m going to take sick leave now,'” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the union that represents controllers across the country said he understands how hard they’re being pushed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are asking the world of them right now,” said Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, in an NPR interview. “Every single person has a right to be frustrated right now. When you are extremely short-staffed, you don’t have working equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the FAA said it was making it a priority to bolster the air traffic controller ranks by “taking a multi-pronged approach to recruit new controllers, improve training success rates and reduce overall training times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA is expanding academy training by nearly 30%, shortening the hiring process by five months and partnering with colleges and universities to prepare more students for careers in air traffic control, the agency said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Nobody’s talking about pay’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Still, some controllers argue they should be paid more to compensate for the grueling working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re missing huge chunks of the prime time of our lives with our families to keep airplanes moving,” said the controller who works high-altitude traffic. “We love our job. But, you know, I want to be paid fairly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said he has heard that message, too. “I go visit facilities every single week,” said the union president. “One of the main topics is pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-4-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick Daniels, the president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters in Washington, D.C., on May 1. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the Trump administration slashing staffing across the federal government, the union has not pushed publicly for a raise. Still, Daniels said the union is looking to find areas of agreement with the administration, which is why the union has supported the effort to modernize equipment and hire more staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The equipment has to be addressed,” Daniels said. “12 and a half billion dollars is a good start to where we need to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said he expects that the administration’s push to hire more controllers will yield tangible results, possibly ending the staffing shortage within four to five years. “Those things will start to reduce the stresses and pressures of the mandatory overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one union member said that does little to ease the pressure on controllers right now — even as many in the government and the general public praise them for doing a critical job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All you’re hearing in the news is staffing [and] equipment, staffing [and] equipment, staffing [and] equipment. Nobody’s talking about pay,” said the high-altitude controller. “The union should be out here every single day talking about pay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FAA air traffic controllers have been working under the same contract since 2016. It’s been extended twice since then — once in 2021 and again \u003ca href=\"https://www.natca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NATCA_MOU_Executed_121824.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last December\u003c/a> — which means their salary ranges haven’t been renegotiated in nearly a decade and won’t be again for at least four more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not to say that air traffic controller pay hasn’t gone up. \u003ca href=\"https://www.natca.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016NATCACBABookmarks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Their contract\u003c/a> gives controllers a 1.6% “length of service adjustment” each June. They also receive the \u003ca href=\"https://www.federalpay.org/gs/raises\">raises given to most federal employees\u003c/a> at the beginning of each year at the discretion of the president and Congress. President Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/trump-proposes-no-2026-raise-for-employees-cuts-in-non-defense-agencies/\">has proposed no raise\u003c/a> for federal workers next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Certified controllers receive a starting salary between $70,876 and $152,426 or higher, based on the facility where they work. In the last fiscal year, the average certified controller earned a salary of about $155,000, according to the FAA, plus overtime and other premiums that push the total cash compensation to an average of $193,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a pay raise would help compensate for rising inflation and the added pressures of the job, controllers say, and give a much-needed boost to controllers working at lower-level facilities in high-cost-of-living areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he was running for NATCA president last summer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cgtyKrFAc0\">Daniels said\u003c/a> he would work to reset controllers’ pay bands “in 2026 when we go to the negotiating table,” but as president he extended the contract to 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Daniels said circumstances had changed since the Trump administration came to power and began slashing the federal workforce. The union stood to lose more than it would gain from reopening the contract, Daniels said. So it’s taking a more cautious approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has to be very strategic, and it has to be in conjunction with this administration and the direction that they’re going to go,” he said. “You can’t be short-sighted when you’re talking about 15,000 peoples’ lives. And just screaming pay to scream pay is short-sighted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union could also push for other financial benefits besides raises, such as premium pay for working Saturdays and changes to overtime pay, the controller added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next for U.S. air traffic controllers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048867\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/npr.brightspotcdn-5-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Planes are parked at Newark Liberty International Airport on May 6. Hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled because of equipment malfunctions at the facility that handles traffic around the airport. \u003ccite>(Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Controllers who spoke to NPR offered mixed reviews of the steps being taken by the Trump administration to address problems at U.S. air traffic control facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Transportation Secretary \u003ca href=\"https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-new-package-boost-air-traffic-controller\">Duffy’s plan to staff up\u003c/a> the workforce includes $5,000 bonuses for recent academy graduates and lump sum payments to encourage controllers eligible for retirement to stay on the job longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not one silver bullet to shoot on air traffic control,” Duffy told lawmakers on Wednesday. “We have to take all of these multiple steps to move as quickly as possible, to get more young people into the business of air traffic control, and keep more of those experienced controllers on the payroll.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But controllers lament that no similar incentives are being offered to the rest of the air traffic controller workforce, the career employees responsible for the day-to-day task of maintaining order in U.S. skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am happy for them. I’m glad they’re getting it. They deserve every penny of it,” the TRACON controller said of academy graduates and those eligible for retirement. “But it should’ve been for the entire workforce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the equipment upgrades, one controller said they were glad the FAA was finally replacing faulty and outdated gear, while another criticized the decision to pay for new technology before wage increases. The retired controller questioned the wisdom of swapping the paper strips controllers use to sequence planes with a digital alternative. “It’s a great system. It doesn’t need to be fixed,” they said. “If it’s not broke, why fix it? It’s not broke at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FAA said in a statement that the new air traffic control system will “enhance safety in the sky, reduce delays, and unlock the future of air travel” and would also ensure that “hard-working air traffic controllers have a system they can rely on and one they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some controllers, though, the long-standing problems at the FAA have pushed them to look for work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. air traffic controller Chris Dickinson recently left the FAA after feeling burnt out at the agency. He found a job with Airservices Australia, and he and his family moved to the country in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dickinson said he understands the stresses facing his friends and former colleagues back in the U.S. “I hope it changes for them, because it’s a fantastic job, a wonderful, wonderful career,” he said. “But it just sucks right now because there’s no staffing, morale’s crap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was after a family vacation to Sydney two years ago that Dickinson began to consider the move. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Updated at 6:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tentative agreement has been reached between striking workers and a waste management company that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12047597/bay-area-trash-pickups-stall-as-republic-services-workers-join-nationwide-strike\">serves several Bay Area cities\u003c/a>, a union representative confirmed Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve reached a tentative agreement with Teamsters Local 439 for our Forward Landfill employees,” Republic Services said in a statement. “Local 439 has informed us that picket lines are coming down across the Bay Area, and our employees are returning to work tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers went on strike in early July after monthslong contract negotiations between their union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Republic Services hit a standstill. Earlier Friday, the company issued a warning that workers who continued to strike would have their health care benefit contributions revoked — unless they agreed to cross the picket line and return to work, union leaders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities considered legal action against the company as the trash went uncollected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>The strike started in the Boston area, where Teamsters-represented Republic Services workers voted to walk off the job in response to what union leaders described as the company’s refusal to match the wage and benefits packages offered by other waste management companies. The labor action spread across the country, and more than 2,000 Teamsters workers at Republic Services are now on strike or honoring picket lines nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Teamsters/status/1945220523257938148\">the union said\u003c/a>. The company has resorted to hiring replacement workers to mitigate growing trash and waste pileups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Teamsters workers in Stockton are among those on strike as they seek an agreement on a new contract, others across the Bay Area have stopped work in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/StocktonSign0422-e1752882563298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Stockton on April 29, 2008. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republic Services “still says no to any better medical and any retirement and still low wages,” said Gilbert Gomez, a representative for Stockton-based Teamsters Local 439. “They rather spend millions [of] dollars bringing in out-of-state replacement workers and everything else instead of settling with 35 [Local 439] members that are their employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, residents in Daly City, Half Moon Bay, San José, Richmond and other cities reported trash piling up and reduced services. Though limited trash pick-up has resumed in most cities, some have set up temporary drop-off sites and dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Republic Services notified workers this week that it planned to cancel medical benefits for all workers who refused to come back to work, Gomez said. In a message that was forwarded to KQED by union representatives, Republic Services allegedly told workers that benefit contributions will end Saturday. Employees who do not return to work by Monday will be responsible for paying the full cost of their benefits, including medical, dental and vision, according to the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are welcome to return to work even while the Teamsters organization continues its strike, in which case the company will continue paying for your benefits — the choice is yours,” the message read.[aside postID=news_12047597 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/GarbageBagsGetty.jpg']Meanwhile, city officials across the Bay Area are urging Republic Services to reach an agreement with union members to end the labor action. Stockton Mayor Christina Fugazi demanded in a social media post on Thursday that the company resolve “the trash situation” by sitting down with workers and union leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fugazi also called on Republic Services to provide customers with a refund for the services delayed by the strike, adding that the city will end its contract with the company if the situation is not resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are fast food workers who are making more than our waste haul employees,” Fugazi said in her Facebook post. “That’s not right, and we need to get this trash picked up. Republic Services, they’re willing to sit at the table with you. They’re available 24/7 to settle this contract and get back to work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials in Daly City, Fairfield and Suisun City have also threatened to pursue legal action against Republic Services if services do not resume. The company has been warned that it is “in violation of our contract,” Fairfield Mayor Catherine Moy said on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By the numbers: \u003c/strong>Last year, Republic Services reported a net income of $512 million — a more than $70 million increase from 2023. Meanwhile, negotiations between the company and striking workers demanding better wages and benefits have been fruitless. Teamsters leaders noted that competitors offer better compensation packages, and workers are demanding that Republic Services follow suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our members are everyday Americans performing essential services across our communities, but Republic is unwilling to offer workers good wages, decent benefits, or a fair contract,” Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said in a statement. “We don’t want this garbage piling up. We want to return to work. But we refuse to be exploited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The bottom line:\u003c/strong> Bay Area city officials were calling on the company to compensate residents and to reach a contract agreement with the union as soon as possible. It is likely that residents would continue to see reduced collection services as long as the strike continued, although cities and the company were working to find temporary solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>The strike started in the Boston area, where Teamsters-represented Republic Services workers voted to walk off the job in response to what union leaders described as the company’s refusal to match the wage and benefits packages offered by other waste management companies. The labor action spread across the country, and more than 2,000 Teamsters workers at Republic Services are now on strike or honoring picket lines nationwide, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Teamsters/status/1945220523257938148\">the union said\u003c/a>. The company has resorted to hiring replacement workers to mitigate growing trash and waste pileups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Teamsters workers in Stockton are among those on strike as they seek an agreement on a new contract, others across the Bay Area have stopped work in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68627\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68627\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/06/StocktonSign0422-e1752882563298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown Stockton on April 29, 2008. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Republic Services “still says no to any better medical and any retirement and still low wages,” said Gilbert Gomez, a representative for Stockton-based Teamsters Local 439. “They rather spend millions [of] dollars bringing in out-of-state replacement workers and everything else instead of settling with 35 [Local 439] members that are their employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, residents in Daly City, Half Moon Bay, San José, Richmond and other cities reported trash piling up and reduced services. Though limited trash pick-up has resumed in most cities, some have set up temporary drop-off sites and dumpsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>Republic Services notified workers this week that it planned to cancel medical benefits for all workers who refused to come back to work, Gomez said. In a message that was forwarded to KQED by union representatives, Republic Services allegedly told workers that benefit contributions will end Saturday. Employees who do not return to work by Monday will be responsible for paying the full cost of their benefits, including medical, dental and vision, according to the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are welcome to return to work even while the Teamsters organization continues its strike, in which case the company will continue paying for your benefits — the choice is yours,” the message read.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On the heels of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-slash-workforce-by-15-cutting-dozens-of-jobs-in-latest-round-of-layoffs\">major layoffs at KQED\u003c/a>, Congress moved to claw back over a billion dollars in federal funding for public media, heightening financial uncertainty for some 1,500 radio and television stations across the country, including one of the system’s biggest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the dominant narrative around the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cuts has centered on the existential danger for small, rural stations, KQED’s precarious situation suggests the consequences could ripple far wider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [layoffs] announcement makes it clear that no one in public media is safe,” said Rodney Benson, a media professor at New York University. “The threat to public media funding affects even the largest and strongest outlets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED \u003ca href=\"https://radioinsight.com/headlines/303978/june-2025-5-29-6-25-nielsen-audio-ppm-ratings-day-1-kqed-fm-sets-new-high-rock-rises-in-los-angeles/\">posted record-high radio ratings\u003c/a> last month and has grown its digital and podcast audiences, but that hasn’t translated to financial stability. Earlier this week, the organization announced it would slash 15% of its staff, citing lower-than-expected revenue growth and economic volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loss of federal dollars will only deepen those challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the most difficult, distressing moment in the nearly 60-year history of public broadcasting, in the 71-year history of KQED,” the organization’s President and CEO, Michael Isip, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910637/congress-votes-to-defund-public-media\">Friday morning on the program Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987158\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"999\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An exterior view of KQED’s headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rescissions package that the House sent to President Donald Trump’s desk late Thursday guts $1.1 billion in federal funding for public media that Congress previously approved, zeroing out that money for the next two years. CPB distributes the federal money to NPR, PBS and its member stations, which were expecting their next payments in the fall. Those will no longer come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The immediate response to this particular round of cuts will be that we are likely to see many stations … go dark,” NPR CEO Katherine Maher said Friday on Morning Edition. “These are stations that serve rural communities. They are stations that receive, in the case of Alaska, up to 70% of their budget in federal funds. And we’re talking small budgets. We’re talking $500,000, $600,000.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED, meanwhile, receives close to $8 million a year in CPB funding, representing about 7% to 8% of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/community-report#financials\">annual revenue\u003c/a>. Like many large stations in major markets across the country, KQED’s budget includes significant revenue from donors and corporate sponsors, lessening its dependence on federal funding.[aside postID=news_12048122 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240522-KQEDheadquarters-12-BL_qed.jpg']“We’re going to move forward, we have no choice but to,” Isip said. “We have a responsibility. Our community expects it from us, and we’ll find a way to preserve independent, noncommercial, public media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how the station will do that isn’t yet clear. Isip said KQED would tap reserves to cover fiscal years 2026 and 2027 and seek out new revenue sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are going to be communities who are losing local news and information, so what can KQED do to fill those gaps around the state?” Isip said, noting that the outlet remains one of the largest nonprofit newsrooms in the country. “We have the privilege and the resources to be able to think about how we can support the rest of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That mission could draw in new philanthropic support, Isip said, and there is still a chance that Congress restores some funding in its upcoming regular budget process for next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, station leaders have not ruled out the possibility of further cuts in a future without federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservative legislators have targeted public media funding for decades, the scale of the current campaign is unprecedented, said Mike Janssen, an editor at the industry publication \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>. “The number of attacks and the different directions they’re coming from all at once is what’s different,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987160\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1102\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-800x588.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-1020x749.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-3-160x118.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s newsroom at its San Francisco headquarters. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The political push to defund public media includes not just the CPB rescission and \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-Response-President-Trump-s-Proposed-Rescissions-Package-and-Budget\">elimination of funding in Trump’s proposed 2026 budget\u003c/a>, but also an executive order he signed in May to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS. The Department of Education also \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-US-Department-Education-Terminating-Ready-Learn-Grant\">ended its Ready to Learn grant\u003c/a>, which has funded educational TV programs, and the FCC opened an investigation into underwriting practices at public stations, including KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These challenges arrive as public media organizations are already navigating a turbulent landscape of declining radio and TV audiences, weakening underwriting revenue from corporate sponsors, and a podcast market that has proved difficult to monetize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a perfect storm,” said Janssen, who’s covered public media for more than two decades. “Traditional funding models are kind of falling apart, and there’s this big need to expand on digital platforms for new audiences, and those two things just aren’t a good combination.”[aside postID=news_12038576 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/GettyImages-2206434879-1020x680.jpg']He pointed to other large public media outlets like \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2024/07/laist-cuts-28-positions-with-buyouts-layoffs/\">LAist in Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/06/gbh-layoffs-hit-45-staffers-less-than-a-month-after-world-cuts/\">WGBH in Boston\u003c/a> that have made similar investments in innovation and also faced cuts. Since March 2023, \u003cem>Current\u003c/em> has tracked roughly 654 layoffs in public media and 73 buyout offers accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janssen and other experts are hard pressed to point to a model that’s working. Optimism about partnerships between local newspapers and public media stations has tempered after Chicago Public Media’s acquisition of the \u003cem>Chicago Sun-Times\u003c/em> failed \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/2025/03/chicago-public-media-avoids-layoffs-as-35-employees-accept-buyouts/\">to fend off reductions there\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to keep growing audience, but how do you do that in a lean way where you can also absorb the shock of what’s going on with underwriting and audience?” Janssen said. “It’s a very hard line to walk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego, said medium-sized outlets like KQED are in a particularly difficult situation. They’re too small to compete with major national outlets, but big enough to pour resources into making their own programs, rather than relying primarily on content made by NPR or other national producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “Goldilocks problem,” Usher said, means they’re “not too big and not too small. Just the right size to be screwed by the way that the attention economy works right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987159\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1500px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987159\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2.jpg 1500w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/kqed-hq-2-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of KQED’s lobby at its headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While these stations may get a relatively small portion of their overall funding from the federal government, losing it could hurt other revenue sources, such as shows that outlets like KQED produce and sell to other stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuts make it harder to do good work, and then that good work is less compelling and fewer people want to purchase it to rebroadcast,” Usher said. “It’s kind of got a potential to spiral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Pickard, a media policy scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, said the crisis at KQED underscores a larger reckoning with the country’s anemic support for public media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always impoverished our public media,” he said. “It’s a bit of a misnomer to call it public; it’s much more of a hybrid dependent on private capital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In most Western European countries, public media is \u003ca href=\"https://www.internetvoices.org/sites/default/files/resources/public-media-and-political-independence.pdf\">funded at about $100 per capita\u003c/a> annually, according to a report from NYU’s Benson and a colleague. \u003ca href=\"https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/reports/revenue/2020PublicBroadcastingRevenue.pdf\">In the United States, it receives\u003c/a> about $1.50 per capita in federal funding each year, and around $3 per capita in total public support, including state and local dollars. With private funding from corporations, foundations and individual donors factored in, the figure is still under $10 per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg.png 1000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-800x480.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/KQED_Expansion_web_3_1000x600.jpg-160x96.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED’s renovated headquarters in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Jason O'Rear)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a result of public media’s shaky government funding, Pickard said it now faces many of the same financial pressures as commercial outlets — shrinking ad revenue, market-driven content decisions, and the need to chase audiences with deep pockets. But that’s exactly what public media was meant to resist: a system that only serves those who can pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are going to guarantee that all members of society have access to a baseline level of news and information — not just wealthy audiences but everyone, not just people who live in cities, but people living in the hinterlands as well — then we need a public media system,” he said.[aside postID=news_12038583 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20240411_PressDemocratFile_GC-4_qed-1020x680.jpg']As stations look to make up for the loss of federal support, they’ll also find private funding sources facing their own challenges. Corporate sponsors are likely to be tested by economic uncertainty and the FCC’s investigation into underwriting practices. And foundations are seeing heightened demand for grants as wider government support for nonprofits evaporates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just think that these are signals that it’s going to be more challenging moving forward,” KQED’s Isip said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State-level funding, meanwhile, doesn’t come close to replacing the hole left by CPB cuts. According to a \u003ca href=\"https://current.org/state-funding-guide/\">tracker compiled by \u003cem>Current\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, 36 states provide some level of direct funding to broadcasters, but in most of those states, funding remained flat or decreased between the last two budget cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California does not directly fund public broadcasters as part of its state budget. 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They’re too small to compete with major national outlets, but big enough to pour resources into making their own programs, rather than relying primarily on content made by NPR or other national producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “Goldilocks problem,” Usher said, means they’re “not too big and not too small. 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