Nick Daniels Elected NATCA President Mick Devine Elected Executive Vice President
(WASHINGTON) – Today, Nick Daniels was elected president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), and Mick Devine was elected Executive Vice President in runoff balloting.
Daniels has served on the National Executive Board (NEB) as the NATCA Southwest Regional Vice President since 2021. In his twenty-one-year FAA career, he spent the last nineteen years at Fort Worth Air Traffic Control Center (ZFW) after two years at Dallas-Addison Air Traffic Control Tower (ADS). Daniels previously served three terms as ZFW President and Facility Representative from 2015-2021 and held local other local offices from 2007-2015.
Nationally, Daniels served on the National Training Committee (including as Chair), the Information and Technology Committee, the Union Synergy Committee, the Grievance Review Team, and the Collaborative Resource Workgroup. He has been a NATCA Academy Instructor for seven years, primarily teaching Representative Training. Regionally, he served on the Labor Relations Team, Training Review Board, and as Onboarding Representative. Daniels is NATCA’s eighth president and will serve a three-year term.
Devine, an air traffic controller from Boston Logan International Airport Air Traffic Control Tower (BOS), served as the New England Regional (NNE) Vice President (RVP) until August 31, 2024, a position he was first elected to in 2018. Devine is NATCA’s ninth executive vice president and will serve a three-year term.
The newly elected President and Executive Vice-President will take office on November 4, 2024, and will join 10 Regional Vice Presidents who were elected on July 30 and took office September 1, 2024, to make up the NATCA National Executive Board (NEB).
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Galen Munroe, Deputy Director of Public Affairs; 202-220-9802, [email protected].
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) is a labor union and aviation safety organization in the United States that represents nearly 20,000 highly skilled air traffic controllers, engineers, and other aviation safety-related professionals. NATCA was certified in 1987 by the Federal Labor Relations Authority to be the exclusive bargaining representative for air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Today, NATCA is one of the strongest labor unions in the federal sector and represents a range of aviation safety professionals in 15 FAA bargaining units, five Department of Defense air traffic facilities, and 123 federal contract towers. These air traffic controllers and other aviation safety professionals make vital contributions to the U.S. economy and make modern life possible by coordinating the safe, orderly, and expeditious movement of one billion aviation passengers and millions of tons of freight within the National Airspace System each year. NATCA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
