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To all the people who have no stomach for going through congress and working this issue here is the 1994 NATCA convention transcript. (and an excerpt) This is a refernce from getting us off the GS pay scale and having our own pay scale and how it would cost the federal government more money. In other words increasing the amount of money allocated for ATC pay has happened before and it can happen again.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Michael 21 (inaudible) Seattle Tracon. I have two easy
22 ones and maybe one tough one. The first one is
23 have we come up with a figure based on the pay
24 scale you displayed up there and what you feel
25 the facilities will be graded at, how much it
1 will cost? I had to go talk to Mr. Bellino, I
2 might have missed that, what total cost of PCB
3 would be?
4 MR. HAINES: No, we don't really know
5 where your facility is going to fit yet.
6 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: No, I mean the
7 general. Right now we pay $73 million PCB, will
8 it be $95 million under the pay scale.
9 MR. HAINES: We don't know where the
10 facilities fit in the pay scale yet so we
11 haven't figured that out exactly. We don't have
12 a dollar figure.
13 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Is that a factor?
14 Does OPM take that much time to figure that out
15 and make that a factor on whether they approve
16 it? Is this approval based on money?
17 MR. HAINES: It could be, yes.
18 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Is there increased
19 money?
20 MR. HAINES: There will be increased
21 costs to the agency and it will have to go
22 through Congress eventually.
23 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: The last question
24 is will there be -- in other words, now, when
25 facility traffic decreases is there a
1 possibility, will it be as easy to downgrade a
2 facility under the new scale as it was under the
3 presenting GS scale?
Another interaction that was awesome is this
MR. KILGALLON: You might be correct, we
22 may have forgotten you.
23 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Everybody does.
24 MR. KILGALLON: Can you bring that to the
25 breakout if you get a chance?
basically it was a member talking to a committee and the committee agreeing they may have overlooked relating to pay. Could you imagen our leadership now admitting they made a mistake on a serious topic like pay?
Tim Haines
Haines is remembered as a NATCA member who never backed down. Because of this staunch dedication to his union, NATCA appointed him to a reclassification project that would revolutionize the way in which members of the union are paid fairly. Many did not believe this project would be successful and thought the FAA would never agree to it. But Haines never faltered in his resolve to protect his profession and the well-being of each and every member of his union.
How things never change
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