Happy New Year - 2011 begins without Clifton Rushing at EWR

Happy New Year!!!

nananana....nananana....heyheyhey..goodbye......CLIFTON

2011 is a good year for the FAA to FIRE ED MASTERSON AND CLIFTON RUSHING FOR THEIR VIOLATIONS OF FEDERAL LAW - The Whistleblower Protection Act.

On December 22nd of 2009 a federal administrative judge ruled that ED MASTERSON VIOLATED FEDERAL LAW. In the same ruling it was determined that CLIFTON RUSHING was complicit in VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW. The Whistleblower Protection Act protects federal employees (like me) from reprisal for making protected disclosures.

I disclosed three unsafe procedures at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. Ed MASTERSON AND CLIFTON RUSHING took REPRISAL ACTIONS against me for protecting the SAFETY OF THE FLYING PUBLIC..as stated by Judge JoAnn Ruggiero on December 22, 2009.

FAA has not fired these managers even though the regulations say they must. FAA NEEDS TO FIRE ED MASTERSON and CLIFTON RUSHING.

I STILL HAVE NOT RECEIVED MY FULL BACKPAY. THESE PEOPLE ATTACKED MY FAMILY'S FINANCIAL WELL-BEING. FAA HAS NOT MADE GOOD ON THIS.

ED MASTERSON and CLIFTON RUSHING'S ACTIONS COST THE FAA $67,000 in legal fees to NATCA for my defense. FAA SHOULD GET THAT MONEY BACK FROM ED MASTERSON AND CLIFTON RUSHING. INSTEAD, ED MASTERSON GOT A PROMOTION AND IS MAKING over $179,000 per year plus benefits and bonuses. It's time to FIRE ED MASTERSON and take back the money he cost the Agency.

Let hope for a very disciplinary 2011......

A big win for NATCA!

NATCA just won a $67,000 legal fee award against the Federal Aviation Administration for successfully overturning the illegal 30-day suspension levied upon me for my protected disclosures of unsafe procedures at Newark Airport. I managed to get both procedures changed and made safer and also beat FAA in front of the Merit Systems Protection Board and a neutral arbitrator.

None of the b*llsh*t charges stuck.

Now it’s time for some accountability. I’m again calling for the offending managers to be fired. I have to solid decisions proving that the managers committed Prohibited Personnel Practices under 5 USC 2302(b)(8). Not only that, they cost the FAA approximately $250,000 and counting.

Now we have a safer airport….it’s time to fire the managers that made it unsafe in the first place.

I urge you all to call your congressional representatives and demand accountability.

Ray