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History of the National Executive Board
As NATCA began to grow, a provisional Executive Board was put into place beginning in 1984. At NATCA’s first organizing meeting on Jan. 11, 1986, the nominally elected members all came together to establish local goals regarding NATCA.
At the meeting, leadership envisioned that NATCA would become much more than a trade union, imagining a professional organization that would exercise influence over such matters as retirement, stress reduction, and restoring immunity programs for controllers who reported operational errors.