{"id":9175,"date":"2013-07-06T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9175"},"modified":"2013-08-28T06:34:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T10:34:26","slug":"a-drone-operators-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/a-drone-operators-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drone (Operator\u2019s) Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070513_0315_ADroneOpera1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Drones might be pilot-less aircraft, but they still have human controllers on the ground. The Economist looked at how someday soon we could see those who support drone strikes go\u2026on strike:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite not actively being in a combat zone the life of a drone pilot is hard \u2013 one operator reports having had to work around the clock for five days straight.<\/li>\n<li>Not to mention the trauma of laying the groundwork to rain death on other human beings from the sky \u2013 the advanced cameras on drones can at times provide a little too much detail into the human lives of the targets.<\/li>\n<li>And these aren&#8217;t necessarily trained military personnel dealing with these conditions. Civilian pilots are allowed to fly spy planes and maintain the aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>Operators used to at least be compensated well for their struggles \u2013 salaries started at over $100,000 a year \u2013 but due to the sequester and the winding down of America&#8217;s wars, wages have fallen.<\/li>\n<li>Civilian Drone Operators have thus formed a collective-bargaining organization that promises to stand up for drone-operator rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why there won&#8217;t be a military drone operators union, what would cause civilian drone operators to strike, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21580461-stressful-lives-drone-pilots-alone-joystick\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/united-states\/21580461-stressful-lives-drone-pilots-alone-joystick\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drones might be pilot-less aircraft, but they still have human controllers on the ground. The Economist looked at how someday soon we could see those who support drone strikes go\u2026on strike: Despite not actively being in a combat zone the life of a drone pilot is hard \u2013 one operator reports having had to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-9175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-drones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070513_0315_ADroneOpera1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9175"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9535,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9175\/revisions\/9535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}