Mass exodus?

As of today, 15036 members and 4555 non-members. Let’s see what the numbers will be next month.
I wish we could get it broken down by controllers instead of all NATCA positions. I want to say there are around 13k controllers on the books. At my facility, just one controller is a non-member (think 4 “left” last year but already rejoined) with the rest of them being staff support guys so would be interesting to see how many of those non-members are actually controllers.
 
Last week, Congress passed yet another stopgap measure to extend funding and avert a government shutdown until March 1. NATCA will continue to monitor progress and keep members informed about congressional efforts to pass long-term government funding for the remaining six months of the 2024 fiscal year.



In addition, the deadline for passing a long-term FAA Reauthorization bill is also quickly approaching on March 8. As NATCA has frequently communicated, our top priority is to ensure that any final version of the FAA Reauthorization legislation includes the staffing targets that were determined by the Collaborative Resource Workgroup (CRWG), which is comprised of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization and NATCA.



Both the House and Senate FAA Reauthorization bills take steps to ensure that FAA revises its annual Controller Workforce Plan (CWP) by requiring adoption of the CRWG Certified Professional Controller (CPC) staffing targets. Only after FAA adopts the CRWG targets as the basis for the CWP, will the FAA begin to improve controller staffing in a sustained and comprehensive manner.



The status quo is unsustainable as the FAA’s current finance-driven staffing model and inconsistent hiring practices have persisted for more than a decade across multiple administrations. For more than a decade, our Union has focused our great advocacy efforts on resolving the long-term crisis of air traffic controller understaffing that has so negatively affected the National Airspace System (NAS).



In addition to addressing the staffing crisis, NATCA has let members of Congress know that any FAA Reauthorization legislation must include steps to update FAA’s technology and prepare the agency for the integration of new users into the system while maintaining and improving the safest, most efficient airspace in the world for the current users of the NAS.



NATCA will continue to advocate for these priorities with members of Congress as they move forward with the FAA Reauthorization process.



In Solidarity,



Rich Santa

NATCA President
 
Last week, Congress passed yet another stopgap measure to extend funding and avert a government shutdown until March 1. NATCA will continue to monitor progress and keep members informed about congressional efforts to pass long-term government funding for the remaining six months of the 2024 fiscal year.



In addition, the deadline for passing a long-term FAA Reauthorization bill is also quickly approaching on March 8. As NATCA has frequently communicated, our top priority is to ensure that any final version of the FAA Reauthorization legislation includes the staffing targets that were determined by the Collaborative Resource Workgroup (CRWG), which is comprised of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization and NATCA.



Both the House and Senate FAA Reauthorization bills take steps to ensure that FAA revises its annual Controller Workforce Plan (CWP) by requiring adoption of the CRWG Certified Professional Controller (CPC) staffing targets. Only after FAA adopts the CRWG targets as the basis for the CWP, will the FAA begin to improve controller staffing in a sustained and comprehensive manner.



The status quo is unsustainable as the FAA’s current finance-driven staffing model and inconsistent hiring practices have persisted for more than a decade across multiple administrations. For more than a decade, our Union has focused our great advocacy efforts on resolving the long-term crisis of air traffic controller understaffing that has so negatively affected the National Airspace System (NAS).



In addition to addressing the staffing crisis, NATCA has let members of Congress know that any FAA Reauthorization legislation must include steps to update FAA’s technology and prepare the agency for the integration of new users into the system while maintaining and improving the safest, most efficient airspace in the world for the current users of the NAS.



NATCA will continue to advocate for these priorities with members of Congress as they move forward with the FAA Reauthorization process.



In Solidarity,



Rich Santa

NATCA President
1) Ctrl + F for "Pay"/"Increase"...
2) Googles "How to bury a union president beneath a football field"
 
Nah we are still greedy little piggies
Yep. End of last week someone in my area complaining about not having an OT for 2 consecutive pay periods. Another was complaining that as much as he wanted 2 day weekends, with the start of the new year he needed OT to get to the FICA cap quicker
 
Yep. End of last week someone in my area complaining about not having an OT for 2 consecutive pay periods. Another was complaining that as much as he wanted 2 day weekends, with the start of the new year he needed OT to get to the FICA cap quicker
When they die at 56 1/2 it will all be worth it! The surviving spouse can take pension, tsp, life insurance and go marry her boyfriend.
 
NATCA removed the filter for members and non-members. Sketch.
What bastards. I think you can still look up the facility membership percentage in the portal. It don’t do much good unless you archived the old data, but if you more and more facilities falling below 90% you know some people have been leaving.

Plus if they ever do an article celebrating the 100% membership facilities (I have not seen one in awhile), you can compare the number of 100% facilities now to the old articles. Though even then, they probably would start to include the FCT places in there, so all those FCT’s with 6 members each will artificially boost their numbers.
 
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