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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.

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