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“ We wanted a greater voice because we knew what happened when we didn’t have one. — President John Carr Day of reckoning: NATCA provisional regional reps and others listen to national organizer John Thornton, right, on June 11, 1987, when the FLRA tallied votes that resulted in union certification. / NATCA archives
Chapter 3 A Long and Winding Road The day shift had ended at Washington Center, a squat, oblong building clad in red brick and white corrugated metal siding on the outskirts of Leesburg, Virginia. Many of the controllers trudging across the parking lot were exhausted. Washington Center handles traffic over eight states, including the congested New York-D.C. corridor. Since 1981, the number of flights had increased 20 percent to an average of 6,000 a day, yet the ranks of radar controllers had rebounded to only about half their pre-strike levels. On this afternoon in the fall of 1983, twelve to fifteen controllers chose not to go directly home. Alerted by word of mouth to a special meeting, they gathered around a large conference table in a training room on the second floor of the facility. Many of them, including a well-liked man named Rick Jones, were veterans who had stayed on the job in 1981. Jones stood up and began talking about a new program the FAA planned to implement at all of its centers called Structured Staffing. The agency intended to limit the number of full-performance level radar controllers. New-hires could not move up until there was a vacancy. It appeared no relief was in sight for FPLs weary of six-day weeks that resulted from short staffing. “My head, my stomach, my whole body is spinning around,” one controller said at the time. “I can’t keep up with the workload. You either need more people to do the work or you need less work— it’s a simple equation.” 1 Another aspect of Structured Staffing, which the FAA put into effect soon after the Washington Center meeting, gave priority for on-the-job training to developmentals with college credits, regardless of previous air traffic control Paul Williams Birthplace: Frustrated by short-staffing, air traffic controllers at Washington Center formed a facility-based organization called NATCA during the fall of 1983.
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