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Traffic Management Coordinators (TMCS)NATCA represents 606 employees in en route centers and terminals, including 88 within ATCSCC in Herndon, VA. The members in this bargaining unit provide many different services that everyone in the FAA needs at one time or another. NATCA won the election with 62 percent of the vote and the Federal Labor Relations Authority certification was received on May 25, 2000. An interim agreement was signed with the FAA on January 30 to incorporate Traffic Management Coordinators (TMCs) into the current NATCA contract. Within NATCA, these members are represented at the local and regional levels no differently than ATC, locally (with both representational duties under law and statute and organizational duties under the NATCA Constitution and Bylaws,) and regionally by the appropriate RVP based on geographic location. What Do These Members Do? These members balance the maximizing of the system by coordinating the flow of aircraft. Traffic decisions are first made daily on a national scale, where TMCs monitor activities throughout the country and adjust the flow. The traffic management coordinators often work between centers, sharing plans for moving around weather, including devising alternative routes. At the centers, they work with controllers to time departures to meet the flow patterns that have been set. They have important continual interfacing with controllers, physically located within the air traffic control framework. More specifically, Traffic Management Coordinators' duties include the following:
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