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NATCA President Paul Rinaldi spoke on day one of the fifth annual World ATM Congress in Madrid, Spain. He took the stage following NATCA Director of Safety and Technology Jim Ullmann and NATCA Program Management Organization […]

From left to right: Jeff Woods, Jim Ullmann, and Paul Rinaldi, at a special collaborative exhibition booth at the conference featuring several international ATC unions, including NATCA. On March 7, the first day of the Fifth […]

(NATCA would like to thank the NATCA Historical Committee, Howie Barte, Dee Robison, and Mike Palumbo for lending their efforts and expertise to NATCA30 coverage.)

This week, we mark the end of our NATCA30 coverage for the 1980s and prepare to delve into the 1990s era history of our great Union.

The story of NATCA began long before the Union’s 1987 election and Federal Labor Relations Authority certification. It began with John F. Thornton, a gifted and influential leader whose passion for representing the interests of the nation’s air traffic controllers began with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), and continued as a national organizer of NATCA.

USA Today’s Ask Air Traffic Control series, featuring NATCA Safety and Technology Director Jim Ullmann answering questions from USA Today readers: NEW! Feb. 28, 2017: Busiest Times of the Year to Fly

This week is National Engineers Week and NATCA has many reasons to celebrate! NATCA represents approximately 2,000 engineers and architects in multiple bargaining units who design new ATC facilities, construct or remodel new or existing ATC […]

NATCA this week publicly highlighted the positive working relationship it has developed with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the progress they have made to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). In conjunction with the first […]