Region X Monthly Update | December 2024
| Brothers and Sisters in Region X, Happy New Year! As 2024 comes to a close, I hope you have had some time to spend with your families and loved ones during the holiday season. I also wanted to say thank you to our Brothers and Sisters who worked over the holidays keeping our National Airspace System operating. While our Air Traffic family kept the planes moving and the skies safe, our Region X family kept the RADAR’s spinning and the support and infrastructure buzzing. Our NATCA family works together to get the job done, always. 2024 was a great year for Region X! We shattered the previous best year for recruiting (2019 – 159 new members) by having roughly 225 new members join! We have prevailed in not only clarifying our Aircraft Certification Unit, but the unit was expanded bringing more AIR BUE’s into Region X and finally allowing these BUE’s the opportunity to become part of our NATCA family. And most recently, our membership overwhelmingly ratified the successor agreement to the light blue and purple CBA’s, which are presently being scheduled for signature by our NATCA President, Nick Daniels and the FAA Administrator. Thank you for making 2024 an incredible year for our Region! Thank you for working together, in solidarity to learn more about NATCA, to train others about the value of belonging to our union, to strengthen our collaborative spirit and taking positive steps to expand our activism and influence through our legislative work. This work will require many more activists in the coming years. I know we are all prepared for the challenges ahead! Next month, your Region X Leadership Team will be setting our collective goals for 2025 for Region X. Goals that intend to continue our trajectory of improvement, and goals that will help us contribute even more to the success of NATCA collectively. Many hands make for light work, but our goals will be intended for all hands to be engaged and active! I will close with once again wishing each of you a Happy New Year. I hope it is filled with joy and prosperity for us all. I am excited to get to work making 2025 another year of great accomplishments for NATCA and for Region X! In Solidarity, Mark NATCA Academy Courses – The 2025 academy course line up has been set and is available through the NATCA portal. Retirement webinars and in-person seminars are extremely valuable and very popular. If justified we can possibly overfill a course. Get with your local leadership as the local 2025 budgets are being set and plan now to send as many of your local members as you can. Contact Ms. Lisa Head, (202) 628-5451 if you have any problems enrolling in retirement seminars. Contact Carolyn Kamara, for all other academy courses. Talk to your local leadership about attending RT-1, Secretary-Treasurer training and check the portal for even more course offerings.  NATCA in Washington – March 24 – 26, 2025 – Save the dates! Visit the NiW page for more information. Politically active local members wanted! Become part of our NATCA legislative force on capitol hill. Make this a topic at your local meetings. Communicating for Safety 2024 – September 15 – 15, 2025 – This is the premier aviation safety event in held in Las Vegas, and hosted by NATCA. You can meet and interact with industry leaders, agency counterparts, and most important, our NATCA family. Excused absence from work with 45-days advance notice and proper coordination. Talk to your local leadership for more information, or go to the CFS page on the NATCA portal.  Registration for NATCA’s 20th Biennial Convention Is Now Open! Register today and plan to be at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco from May 9-11, 2025, with the opening ceremony taking place on the evening of May 8. Early registrants will get the best prices on all Convention events. Room reservations can be made directly during the Convention registration process. The cutoff date and time to book your room is April 11, 2025, at 5 p.m. PDT or when our Union’s room block is sold out. Visit the 20th Annual NATCA Convention page on the portal for more information and to register! NATCA Member Benefits – Take Advantage! Grab back some of your dues money with great NATCA benefits! Take a discounted cruise, get a Snooz for your baby, apply for a college scholarship, or save $1,100 a year on home and car insurance like Curt Howe did this year. Check out the Benefits website (behind the firewall) and feel free to email the Benefits team at the address provided. https://www.natca.org/benefits/ [email protected]  Want to recognize your work, your coworkers efforts, members that do community outreach, or other really cool human achievements that our NATCA members do everyday? Or perhaps you just have pictures from a NATCA function worth sharing? Send pictures and brief captions/narratives to our own Ms. Lisen Minetti. If your content is acceptable and approved, Lisen will work to get your valued input into our Region X Facebook (please like and follow) page and NATCA National Website. We also have a new clearing house for submitting news articles to our National Communications Committee. Region X National Contact Informations Region X National Leadership Mark Rausch Regional Vice President Bob Aitken Alternate Regional Vice President Nicole Wysong Alternate Regional Vice President Allen Casey Alternate Regional Vice President Gwendolyn Kimbrough AFN National Representative Felicia Reeves Airports National Representative Patrick Massie Aircraft Certification National Representative Allen Strah AIT National Representative Freidy Lazala Drug Abatement National Representative Ralph Pagington Field Automation Support Team (FAST) Kevin Hammond Operations Support Facilities (OSF) Team Region X National Committee Representative Don Schmeichel – National Safety Committee Bob Aitken – National Training Committee Lisen Minetti – National Communications Committee Freidy Lazala – National Drug & Alcohol Committee Samantha Giberson – National Safety Committee Mike Martin – National Constitution Committee Anthony Barksdale – National Organizing Committee Jefferson MacDonald – National Organizing Committee Homer Benavides – National OSHA Committee Quang Nguyen – National Benefits Committee Don Schmeichel – National Historical Committee Jason Holland – National Legislative Committee Dawn Forde – National Legislative Committee Corey Glaze – National Pay Team & Collaboration Facilitator Ed Szczuka – Finance Committee, Onboarding Corey Glaze – Finance Committee (Mentee) Allen Strah – IT and Regional Communications Homer Benavides – National OWCP Committee Brittan Smith – Union Synergy Committee Nicole Wysong – National Reloaded Committee |
| Region X Updates & Meeting Notes Archive FEBRUARY 2024 VIRTUAL MEETING NOTES December 2023 OCTOBER 2023 VIRTUAL MEETING NOTES NOVEMBER 2023 VIRTUAL MEETING NOTES September 2023 Update Conducted at CFS August 2023 July-June-May-April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 October & November 2022 August & September 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 – Updates at Kansas City Meeting June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 Contract Extensions & Call Notes March 2021 January & February 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 |
