Against the Wind - National Air Traffic Controllers Association

nificant challenge from the center’s longtime
facility rep, Mark Scholl, and retained his seat
for a third term.
New England: Incumbent T. Craig
Lasker from Boston Center chose not to run
for re-election. Mike Blake, the facility rep at
the center, ran unopposed.
Northwest Mountain: Incumbent
James Ferguson from Salt Lake Center held
back a challenge by Reclassification Committee
member Mike Coulter from Denver Tower
to retain his seat for a second full term.
Southern: Rodney Turner from Nashville
Metro Tower/TRACON beat Tim Leonard
from Miami Center.
Southwest: Mark Pallone from Dallas-Fort
Worth TRACON defeated incumbent
Rich Phillips from Houston Center.
Western-Pacific: Gus Guerra from Oakland
Center beat incumbent Owen Bridgeman
from Phoenix TRACON.
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May
NATCA starts a program to award five $2,000 scholarships annually. May
1 is the deadline for children of active members to submit a 500-word
essay. NATCA subsequently announces the inaugural winners to be: Karen
adopted a year before contract talks began. To remove
a stumbling block—and avoid the potential of
negotiating over the contract ad nauseam with the
union—Thoman agreed to the single-prong test after
Krasner pledged to review the seniority issue at NAT-
CA’s 1998 convention.
“The doc trine was
extremely damaging
to unions
in their effort to
conduct midterm
bargaining,” says
Andy Cantwell,
another member
of the team who
helps te ach cont r act pro - visions
at facility rep training sessions. “It’s my belief
that this was one of the most significant achievements
in the 1998 contract.”
One of the union’s proposals prohibited contract
team members from leaving the bargaining
unit and going into management for the duration of
the agreement. After the FAA rejected the article on
the grounds that it concerned union business, the
members decided to affirm their allegiance another
way. Carr wrote the pledge on a cloth napkin at dinner
one night. Each of the members then scrawled
their signatures on “the shroud” as it was passed
around the table. *
Chapter 5: The Art of the Deal
Blittersdorf, Margaret L. Bullard, Melissa Lee Hambrick, Laura Caroline
Hightower, and Brandy L. Smith. Chalmer Detling is recognized for best
essay.
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* Mark Hood from New York TRACON,
keeper of “the shroud,” noted in 2000 that
John Carr technically—and unwittingly—
violated its precept when he was elected
president. The union’s top two officers serve
their terms while on leave without pay from
the FAA.