Against the Wind - National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Against the Wind - National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Against the Wind - National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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100<br />
1987<br />
<strong>Against</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Wind</strong><br />
1988<br />
The First <strong>National</strong> Executive Board<br />
Although several interim regional representatives<br />
retained <strong>the</strong>ir seats, <strong>the</strong><br />
1988 election brought five new faces to <strong>the</strong><br />
board:<br />
Alaskan: Incumbent Will Faville Jr.<br />
from Anchorage Center handily beat Gordon<br />
Jones from Kodiak Tower.<br />
Central: Incumbent Dan Brandt from<br />
Omaha TRACON easily defeated Larry<br />
Clementz from St. Louis TRACON.<br />
Eastern: Steve Bell’s presidential bid<br />
left <strong>the</strong> field open in <strong>the</strong> region. New York<br />
TRACON controller Barry Krasner won a<br />
runoff election against Steve Van Houten<br />
from New York Center after cultivating <strong>the</strong><br />
support of voters who had backed Dave<br />
Pearson from Harrisburg Tower/TRACON<br />
in <strong>the</strong> first round.<br />
Great Lakes: Joseph Bellino, <strong>the</strong> first<br />
developmental at O’Hare Tower/TRACON<br />
to join PATCO and a longtime NATCA<br />
9<br />
Oct.<br />
<br />
NATCA archives<br />
Band of bro<strong>the</strong>rs: NATCA’s first elected board took office in September 1988. The top two executives and nine regional<br />
representatives included, from left: Will Faville Jr., Alaskan; President Steve Bell; Jim Breen, New England; Joseph Bellino,<br />
Great Lakes; Barry Krasner, Eastern; Dan Brandt, Central; Executive Vice President Ray Spickler; Lee Riley, Sou<strong>the</strong>rn; Ed<br />
Mullin, Southwest; Gary Molen, Northwest Mountain. Not pictured: Western-Pacific Regional Rep Richard Bamberger.<br />
organizer, had taken over as alternate rep<br />
from Cleveland Center’s Scott Lawless before<br />
<strong>the</strong> election. He beat Mark Ward from<br />
Indianapolis Center and David Shuler from<br />
O’Hare Tower with 61 percent of <strong>the</strong> vote.<br />
New England: Providence Tower<br />
NATCA and FAA representatives sign an agreement regarding random<br />
drug testing. The Memorandum of Understanding provides for a grievance<br />
and arbitration procedure for controllers who are forced to undergo test-<br />
controller Howie Barte, who had served as<br />
<strong>the</strong> regional rep for nearly four years, lost<br />
to Jim Breen from Bradley Tower/TRACON.<br />
A former state trooper who helped establish<br />
<strong>the</strong> Connecticut State Police Union,<br />
Breen edged out Barte by seventeen votes<br />
ing. The signing follows a U.S. District Court ruling denying an injunction<br />
against testing sought by NATCA and AFGE.