Organizing Committee

UAO FCT in Oregon The NATCA Family has officially grown by two facilities this week! Serco-operated Federal Contract Tower (FCT) program facilities at Hawthorne, Calif., Municipal Airport (HHR), and Aurora State Airport (UAO) south of Portland, […]

NATCA created the Team Excellence Award in 2016 to honor the Slate Book Contract team for their phenomenal work negotiating the best Collective Bargaining Agreement in our history. It was given in 2017 to the Professional […]

NATCA reached a milestone this month, when we chartered our 100th Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Federal Contract Tower (FCT) local at Renton, Wash. RNT is operated by Serco, Inc. and is one of more than 250 […]

On Monday, Nov. 13, NATCA held its fourth annual Corporate Partnership Reception in Washington, D.C. NATCA President Paul Rinaldi, Executive Vice President Trish Gilbert, and National Organizing Committee (NOC) Chairman John Bratcher spoke at the reception […]

Below, read a message from NATCA National Organizing Committee Chairman John Bratcher on the passing of Organizing Committee member Tom Berry. You can read his obituary here. Fellow Organizers, It is with a deep sadness that […]

NATCA represents controllers who work at 96 of the 253 Federal Contract Towers (FCT) operated by Robinson Aviation (RVA), Inc., Midwest Air Traffic Control Service, Inc., and Serco, Inc.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began contracting out towers in the early 1990s. The National Labor Relations Board certified NATCA as the exclusive bargaining representative for its first Federal Contract Tower, Central Wisconsin Tower (CWA), Mosinee, Wis., in early 1997.