NATCA's MKG Local
Our site is currently in the process of being updated. Please check back regularly as we will be adding new content.
This site is intended to inform vistors of what we do and hopefully enlighten those unfamiliar with NATCA (National Air Traffic Controllers Association), of what it stands for, and it's vision for air traffic today and the future. We have picked up a few new people this year of 2008 at MKG. We plan to add informative links on this site about the Muskegon area to help others contemplating a career at MKG tower.
For those who stick around the site long enough maybe we can dispell some of the FAA spin. FAA claims there is a contract between labor and management. Lets take the biggest misnomer the FAA likes to use. The FAA loves to refer to the "Contract" between NATCA and FAA even to the point of issuing The White Book outlining how business will be done according to FAA with the word "CONTRACT" in big bold letters on the cover.
The definition of Contract according to Merriam-Websters online: A binding agreement between two or more persons or parties ; especially : one legally enforceable. To date NATCA and FAA have not come to an agreeement on issues. Hence there is no Contract but rather rules imposed on the workforce by FAA who arbitrarily changes the IWR (Imposed Work Rules) at their unknown whim - even without notice to the bargaining unit! So instead of a "Contract" we have a "Nontract".
We will also be adding links that should educate visitors on other aspects of the aviation industry.
Here is a story of FAA management's double standard. A supervisor training the tower manager (both individuals of management) on position takes a cell phone call leading to an OE (Operational Error). A controller at a different facility gets fired for answering a cell phone call from the babysitter who was only supposed to call in the event of an emergency with no airplanes on frequency and no OE involved. This controller's call lasted just long enough to determine no emergency existed and advised he would call later (8 second duration). Surely it was coincidence that he was also the facility's union representative. Let us see if the FAA holds the same punishment for it's management.
Want to read more about how the FAA really treats it's workforce? Follow any of the links to the right.
