NATCA will pore over every detail in the draft bill when it is finally released and only then
will decide NATCA's position on the bill. According to Rinaldi and Gilbert, if there are
provisions we cannot l ive with, we will spare no effort to change them. And, if we cannot
change them to our satisfaction, we will have no choice but to oppose the bill.
As stated earlier, the current FAA Authorization expires on September 30, and at
this point it has become c lear that even if the House is able to introduce, mark up, and
vote on the bill, it would not leave the Senate enough time to do the same. An extension
is expected to become a top priority for committee staff in both the House and the
Senate to buy more ti me to work on the "transformative" FAA Reauthorization. NATCA
government affairs staff will be meeting with House and Senate committee staffs to
discuss NATCA priorities for the inevitable extension.
COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
VOTE NATCA! Communications Dept. Joins Union's Large Get - Out - The - Vote
Effort for AFN Employees
Last week, the 1,300 BUEs in the newly realigned AFN unit (FAA Office of
Finance and Management) began receiving their ballots from the FLRA in an election to
decide which union will be their exclusive bargaining representative. They have until
Sept. 23 to return the ballots to the FLRA by mail. NATCA is working hard to win their
votes. The Communications Department joined other National Office departments and
the National Organizing Committee in continuing a large - scale and comprehensive effort
to reach ou t to each AFN BUE to urge them to VOTE NATCA and answer any questions
they have about what NATCA can do to better their careers and working conditions.
We assisted with efforts to draft, edit, and send out daily email messages to each
AFN BUE, updated our main organizing website, www.thenatcadifference.com , helped
staff our weekly information booth at FAA HQ (where more than 400 AFN employees
work), and made phone calls to AFN BUEs.
To read our coverage i n the NATCA Insider, please click here .
Photo gallery from meet and greet events over the past few weeks, please click
here .
Check out our new video here .
NOMINATE YOUR FELLOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS! ARCHIE LEAGUE MEDAL
OF SAFETY AWARDS PROGRAM: We have only four more months left to try and find
our next Archie League Medal of Safety winners! We urge you to consider nominating a
fellow member – or team of members – for an Archie League award. All events since
Jan. 1, 2015 are eligible. Our 12
th
annual program will honor the best flight assists of
calendar year 2015 from each region. We invite you to nominate a fellow NATCA
member for this award, using our new online form. Winners will be honored at Bally's in
Las Vegas on March 23, 2016 to close our annual Communicating for Safety conference
in grand style.
The form allows you to type in i nformation and also attach the video and audio
files that we need to complete the nomination. Please act as soon as you can to
nominate after an event so that the audio and video files can be obtained before they are
no longer available. You can also email nominations or send them by traditional mail to
the National Office. For these and all other questions and information, please contact
Archie League Awards Coordinator Sarah Zilonis at szilonis@natcadc.org .
