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Air-traffic controllers in Jamaica stage sick-out to protest wages and safety

David McFadden

Skift Take

Jamaica's travel and transport infrastructure is a disgrace on a good day. If only decent wages were the only issue that plagued it.

Most flights to and from Jamaica were operating on schedule Sunday despite a sick-out staged by air traffic controllers. The island's civil aviation agency called in contingency teams to man control towers for incoming and outgoing flights. A union representing 90 percent of Jamaica's air traffic controllers, who first abandoned their posts on Saturday, said their protest was over a wage dispute, a lack of confidence in "the current state of essential equi

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