Brigida v. FAA: Case Against Obama Era Racially Biased FAA Hiring Practices

[DigitalDrifter]

Back in 2013, the Obama administration made changes to the hiring practices involving Flight Controllers. They dropped a skill-based system for selecting and hiring air traffic controllers (ATCs), and replaced it with a new system designed to favor applicants on the basis of their race.

Feb 1, 2022
Denver, Colorado — February 1, 2020 — Mountain States Legal Foundation today announced a major step forward on an effort to hold the Federal Aviation Administration accountable for Obama-era hiring practices that were designed to exclude better-qualified air traffic control candidates, in favor of less-qualified candidates, all due to the color of their skin.
Federal judge Dabney Friedrich of the Federal District Court in the District of Columbia today approved class action certification for MSLF clients Andrew Brigida and Matthew Douglas-Cook and other aspiring air traffic controllers who scored highly on qualification tests but lost out on their dream jobs due to the FAA’s effort to skew the hiring process along racial lines.
That allows MSLF to represent approximately 1,000 qualified applicants who were passed over for an air traffic controller position as part of the FAA’s effort to prioritize racial characteristics over qualifications.
MSLF Attorney David C. McDonald offered the following statement following the

Brigida v. FAA: Case Against Racially Biased FAA Hiring Practices Cleared for Takeoff as a Class Action - Mountain States Legal Foundation

Mountain States Legal Foundation today announced a major step forward on an effort to hold the Federal Aviation Administration accountable for Obama-era hiring practices that were designed to exclude better-qualified air traffic control candidates, in favor of less-qualified candidates, all due...

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[IM2]

Back in 2013, the Obama administration made changes to the hiring practices involving Flight Controllers. They dropped a skill-based system for selecting and hiring air traffic controllers (ATCs), and replaced it with a new system designed to favor applicants on the basis of their race.

Brigida v. FAA: Case Against Racially Biased FAA Hiring Practices Cleared for Takeoff as a Class Action - Mountain States Legal Foundation

Mountain States Legal Foundation today announced a major step forward on an effort to hold the Federal Aviation Administration accountable for Obama-era hiring practices that were designed to exclude better-qualified air traffic control candidates, in favor of less-qualified candidates, all due...

mslegal.org

White doesn't aways mean better qualified, racist.

And Obama is not why the crash happened.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Really, it's pretty much all white.

 

[IM2]

Really, it's pretty much all white.
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And so once again we see proof that DEI doesn't hurt whites.

 

[martybegan]

And so once again we see proof that DEI doesn't hurt whites.

Unless they were on the planes in question.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

White doesn't aways mean better qualified, racist.

And Obama is not why the crash happened.

No it doesn't, but it's not a reason to pass on a candidate because they are white. We want EQUALITY not EQUITY!!!

As for Obama, his changes, may have contributed to the lack of having the best qualified candidates.

 

[Lisa558]

Back in 2013, the Obama administration made changes to the hiring practices involving Flight Controllers. They dropped a skill-based system for selecting and hiring air traffic controllers (ATCs), and replaced it with a new system designed to favor applicants on the basis of their race.

Brigida v. FAA: Case Against Racially Biased FAA Hiring Practices Cleared for Takeoff as a Class Action - Mountain States Legal Foundation

Mountain States Legal Foundation today announced a major step forward on an effort to hold the Federal Aviation Administration accountable for Obama-era hiring practices that were designed to exclude better-qualified air traffic control candidates, in favor of less-qualified candidates, all due...

mslegal.org

Why isn’t something like this illegal? Discrimination by race is grounds for a lawsuit in private practice.

 

[martybegan]

Why isn’t something like this illegal? Discrimination by race is grounds for a lawsuit in private practice.

Because as you see in the lawsuit, they hide it in questionnaires and rating systems that involve things not remotely related to the job in question.

They say they are taking a "holistic" approach and make the questions so they can get a good idea of the background of the applicant.

 

[Lisa558]

Because as you see in the lawsuit, they hide it in questionnaires and rating systems that involve things not remotely related to the job in question.

They say they are taking a "holistic" approach and make the questions so they can get a good idea of the background of the applicant.

Ah! The good old “holistic” approach. Reminds me of my days working in admissions. They were finding it hard to justify why so many blacks with a 3.3 and SAT score of 1000 were getting in while whites with 3.8 and 1300 were being rejected. So they came up with that holistic nonsense to explain about such an extreme discrepancy.

 

[Lisa558]

Because as you see in the lawsuit, they hide it in questionnaires and rating systems that involve things not remotely related to the job in question.

They say they are taking a "holistic" approach and make the questions so they can get a good idea of the background of the applicant.

P.S. Do you know that Harvard sent out recruitment letters, and had different cut-offs depending on the race of the student? I can’t recall exactly, but it was something like 1100 for blacks, 1200 for whites, and 1350 for Asians. (Knowing Harvard, they probably didn’t send out any to Jews.)

These libs need to stop their blatant racism.

 

[martybegan]

Ah! The good old “holistic” approach. Reminds me of my days working in admissions. They were finding it hard to justify why so many blacks with a 3.3 and SAT score of 1000 were getting in while whites with 3.8 and 1300 were being rejected. So they came up with that holistic nonsense to explain about such an extreme discrepancy.

Don't forget the Asians being denied entry as well, and that includes Southeast Asians.

 

[martybegan]

P.S. Do you know that Harvard sent out recruitment letters, and had different cut-offs depending on the race of the student? I can’t recall exactly, but it was something like 1100 for blacks, 1200 for whites, and 1350 for Asians. (Knowing Harvard, they probably didn’t send out any to Jews.)

These libs need to stop their blatant racism.

Jews were probably lumped in with whites.

 

[Lisa558]

Don't forget the Asians being denied entry as well, and that includes Southeast Asians.

There was an Asian boy with a perfect 1600 and was rejected from ALL Ivies, and a Black girl with a 1550 accepted to ALL Ivies.

 

[martybegan]

There was an Asian boy with a perfect 1600 and was rejected from ALL Ivies, and a Black girl with a 1550 accepted to ALL Ivies.

1550 and 1600 should have gotten accepted into most of them, both.

 

[Lisa558]

Jews were probably lumped in with whites.

Possibly. Or….they threw away letters if the kids’ names were Goldstein, Cohen, and so forth. Harvard has a terrible history with blocking Jews.

 

[Lisa558]

1550 and 1600 should have gotten accepted into most of them, both.

Agreed. So why did the Asian kid get rejected from every single one?

Hint: the answer is embedded in the question.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

One thing is for sure, the supervisor who allowed a Controller to leave work early, which only left one controller on duty, has got to be fired.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Unless they were on the planes in question.

Tell us which planes those are.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

There was an Asian boy with a perfect 1600 and was rejected from ALL Ivies, and a Black girl with a 1550 accepted to ALL Ivies.

How many white kids with a 1500 were accepted?

 

[Lisa558]

How many white kids with a 1500 were accepted?

Irrelevant.