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Against the Wind - National Air Traffic Controllers Association

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2000<br />

The Fifth <strong>National</strong> Executive Board<br />

Four new<br />

faces joined <strong>the</strong><br />

board in 2000:<br />

Alaskan:<br />

Incumbent Ricky<br />

Thompson from<br />

Anchorage Center<br />

easily defeated<br />

Doug Holland to<br />

win his second<br />

term.<br />

Holland<br />

worked at Chicago<br />

TRACON and his<br />

candidacy involved<br />

an interesting quirk in <strong>the</strong> union’s constitution.<br />

Candidates are permitted to run<br />

for vice president in regions o<strong>the</strong>r than<br />

where <strong>the</strong>y work; however, controllers<br />

can vote only in <strong>the</strong>ir own region.<br />

Central: John Tune from Kansas<br />

City Center beat incumbent Bill Otto<br />

from St. Louis TRACON.<br />

Eastern: Incumbent Joe Fruscella<br />

from New York TRACON ran unopposed<br />

for his third term.<br />

Great Lakes: In his second campaign<br />

for <strong>the</strong> position, Alternate Regional<br />

Vice President Pat Forrey from Cleveland<br />

<br />

Chapter 6: Spreading its Wings<br />

NATCA archives<br />

The current leadership: NATCA’s fifth <strong>National</strong> Executive Board includes, from left: John Tune; Central; Jim D’Agati; Engineers & Architects; President<br />

John Carr; Rodney Turner, Sou<strong>the</strong>rn; Carol Branaman; Northwest Mountain; Mark Pallone, Southwest; Pat Forrey, Great Lakes; Mike Blake,<br />

New England; Kevin McGrath, Western-Pacific; Ricky Thompson, Alaskan; Executive Vice President Ruth Marlin; and Joe Fruscella, Eastern.<br />

Center edged out Kevin Christy from<br />

Chicago Center.<br />

New England: Incumbent Mike<br />

Blake from Boston Center ran unopposed<br />

for his second term.<br />

Northwest Mountain: Carol<br />

Branaman from Denver Centennial Tower<br />

defeated Mike Motta from Seattle TRA-<br />

CON.<br />

Sou<strong>the</strong>rn: Incumbent Rodney<br />

Turner from Nashville Metro Tower/<br />

TRACON won a second term by beating<br />

1998 contract team member Andy<br />

Cantwell from Miami Tower.<br />

Southwest: Eric Owens from<br />

Houston TRACON outpolled incumbent<br />

Mark Pallone from Dallas-Fort Worth<br />

TRACON, but nei<strong>the</strong>r earned a majority.<br />

Dennis McGee from DFW Tower also ran<br />

and collected 19.5 percent of <strong>the</strong> vote. In<br />

a runoff, Pallone retained his seat for a<br />

second term.<br />

Western-Pacific: Kevin McGrath<br />

from Sou<strong>the</strong>rn California TRACON defeated<br />

incumbent Gus Guerra from Oakland<br />

Center, making this <strong>the</strong> only region<br />

to select a new vice president in each of<br />

NATCA’s five national elections.<br />

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