NAATS Board of Directors Minutes
October 15-17, 2001
GA Summit Report Simpson
The Runway Incursion Group will meet next
month. Currently, telecons are being held every Thursday and Mr. Simpson
continues to work on the 7110 project every day. This rewrite is very
important to FSS. . The field has sent in over 600 suggestions. The VNR
Workgroup has completed their work and our recommendation to the FAA has not
changed in that we do not believe in a standard statement like �VNR is needed.
AOPA still advocates the use of a standard statement when weather conditions
are hazardous to pilots who are only VFR rated. FAA is adamant that the new
VOID statement will only be used during a �standard� briefing when a pilot
states they are going �VFR� only. The agency also says they are committed to
the training of everyone, sups, staff, managers as well as the journeypersons.
NBAA has been rescheduled for December
As it concerns our previous commitment to the Luxor we received a full refund
because the office canceled in a timely fashion. Mr. Hoover discussed various
transportation options and considerations. Mr. Pike proposes the national
office to pay any rebooking costs if a member can show that they have
purchased their ticket prior to the postponement of the October �01 Convention
and if they can substantiate a cancellation or rebooking fee. The BOD
supported this whole- heartedly.
Office Report
The office report opened with a discussion
surrounding the office personnel and their compensation. MOTION: Mr.
Jaffe, �I move that we increase Ms. DeStefano�s salary up to $35,000.00 a year
and increase Ms. Gordon�s hourly rate to $12.50 per hour, both by January 1st.
Additionally, include any cost of living increases we receive as federal
employees and a $1,00 bonus for each employee at the same time.� SECOND; Mr.
Baker. There was an amendment to the motion to give Ms. Gordon a $500.00 bonus
and give the bonuses immediately. Unanimously passed.
The NAATS HQ LAN will be decommissioned.
President�s Report
Mr. Pike presented a briefing on our current
status vis-�-vis our legislative effort. He will meet with Chairman Don Young
a week from Wednesday. He will ask Mr. Young if he intends to introduce
language to correct our pay inequity. If Young declines Mr. Pike will ask the
question of why can�t someone else introduce legislation and Congressman Young
would not stand in the way of letting it pass. Mr. Pike made the point that
the membership has come through and written all of the letters that the BOD
hoped they would. We are concentrating on Chairman Young since the other
congressional members all defer to him.
November 30th is the next time Mr. Pike will meet with the FAA Administrator.
The BOD went through the exercise of each Director and RegCo sharing his or
her position on pay. The result was a majority confirming our comparability
position.
Mr. Pike wants to stay with comparability and
recommended that if we want to continue the comparability strategy, and we�re
not successful this year, we should consider exploring other congressional
options. The BOD agreed. Action Item: If we are not successful this year on
pay comparability, Mr. Pike will work with legal counsel to cost out a class
action lawsuit and possible ULP over FAA�s refusal to bargain in good faith.
Chief Negotiator�s Report
Mr. Dolan briefed us on the blanket waiver of
negotiation time frames since the 9/11 incident. Mr. Dolan warned about the
regions trying to go to a NOTAM system utilized through the Internet. The
caution here is to not make any early agreements as this method of NOTAM
distribution has not been correctly coordinated nor may it even really work.
There is no MOU surrounding this issue.
Voice Switch- Mr. Dolan is trying to get the agency to sign off on an MOU like
OASIS. He does not want to do anything else with the voice switch program
until they sign off on the MOU.
Mr. Dolan gave an update on the DF system. He requests that no one agree to
the shutting down of DFs. Mr. Dolan wants people to call him if they have any
questions concerning DF.
Other than the SUA/ISE system Mr. Dolan said we would not sign off on any
other system unless it goes through the OASIS Human Factors Team.
Discussion about the use of the Internet. Mr. Dolan said we have no MOU or
signed agreement to let us use the internet. He said that the verbal word was
given to all 500s and 501s from the �situation room� that they would allow
access to the intranet. We are supposed to have 24-hour access to the intranet
to view the web site for AOPA, NBAA etc.
2002 NAATS Budget was presented by Treasurer
John Wesselhoft.
A lengthy discussion was held concerning the
NAATS Administrator. Mr. Wesselhoft presented the prepared draft budget for
2002. There was a lengthy discussion concerning subsistence versus stipend.
MOTION: Mr. Comisky, �I move NAATS reimburse those individuals that agree to
come to work in the DC area, at the request of the BOD, at the same rate as
the FAA pays long term per diem.� Second; Mr. O�Connell. Discussion.
Supporting; Holmes, O�Connell and Comisky. Opposed: Jaffe, Stafford, Baker,
Hoover, McLennan and Terry. Motion fails.
Motion: Ms. Holmes. I move that the office administrator receive a subsistence
of the current $26,400 not a stipend with no tax liability to the union.
Seconded by Dave Hoover. Motion passes 8 in favor, 1 absent.
Discussion as to if we need to have a glossy quarterly newsletter. The NAATS
glossy Newsletter will remain as a budget item for now but we will take this
up at the next meeting to either continue or eliminate the glossy. Mr.
McLennan is to write an article in the next newsletter that explains what the
BOD would like to do.
MOTION: Mr. Stafford, �Convert regional training expenses back to a
national expense.� Second; Mr. Baker. Discussion. Motion was withdrawn.
Regional Training fund distribution for Facreps is: NM-10, EA-9, GL-13, SW-10,
WP-10, NE-4, AL-10, CE-6, SO-16.
The remainder of the �02 budget was worked and approved by the Board.
PRT News Focals Dibble
Mr. Dibble briefed the BOD on what the PRT is
looking to in the future. Hopefully, we could eventually get to the point
where we have one �news focal� in each facility. We had a brief discussion on
trying to get some sort of administrative time for the head of the PRT to be
able to visit air shows without having to use his own time. Mr. McLennan took
an IOU to discuss this with the ANM Division Manager. Mr. Dibble has a
majority of the e-mail focals he needs. The thought is to have a couple of
email focals that he can keep in touch with when news items happen. If a
FacRep or a member has news information then they would send it up to Mr.
Dibble. Mr. Dibble is working on the flight watch handout.
Mr. Pike let us know that flight service is celebrating its 80th anniversary.
He will call attention to this in the appropriate forums.
Arbitration Advocacy Training
The BOD made the decision to hold another basic
arbitration class with all new personnel. The BOD agreed to have a class of 15
personnel with the breakdown as follows. SO-3, WP-2, EA-2, SW-2, NE-1, CE-1,
AK-1, NW-1, GL-1 National -1. NAATS National HQ will contact AAA and schedule
with training.
Liaison Discussion
What is it that they do and what is it we
expect them to do? Mr. Pike and Mr. Dolan briefed the new BOD members on the
functions performed by the NAATS Liaisons and how their selection takes place
(President makes a recommendation after talking with the appropriate Regional
Director. BOD then approves or disapproves.)
Motion: Mr. Stafford - I move that all
liaisons and tech reps submit job reports every other week, and workgroup and
part time reps report out seven days after meeting. Ms. Holmes seconds. Motion
passes 9-0.
OASIS
The next site scheduled for implementation will
be STL AFSS. Mr. Barnes reports everything moving forward. Testing on the
software for AND AFSS to go through and planned to be operational in June. STL
to be next followed by BUF and then BDR. The cycle for software updates is
about every six months. Mr. Barnes recommends we bring in the original �night
note team� Testing to be done at the Tech Center for the Anderson AFSS
software. The team will then go to AND AFSS and do testing right at the
facility. He explained that OASIS exceeded its budget 50%.
Voice Switch
Mr. Dolan briefed the BOD on how the OASIS
training would be done. He recommends that Ms. Holmes do the OASIS training.
Board supports Ms. Holmes to assist Mr. Dolan with the training and approves
the �night note team� for the testing of the AND system.
Steve Glowacki - Headset replacement is on schedule. Mr. Glowacki says
that the headset MOU is supposed to be in the R & I binder. February first is
the schedule for headset replacement. Mr. Glowacki says originally there were
8 headsets but now there will only be 7 headsets. There must be a �onsite
replacement� for each model headset at the facility and not at the regional
depot. Mr. Glowacki will be the focal point for all the RegDirs who are having
problems.
Steve Glowacki � Mr. Dibble is handling the web site and Mr. Glowacki
is doing the Email function. Every RegDir, RegCo, Liaisons etc. now have a
post office box. FacReps will soon have post office boxes also. Mr. Glowacki
explains the email functions to the BOD. Mr. Dibble also explains that the
system will have a bulletin board and a chat room.
Steve Glowacki � (Voice Switch) Mr. Glowacki will be going to different
companies sites and look at their equipment. After that, three will be three
companies selected to go to the Tech Center and they will do additionally
testing there. Mr. Glowacki said they will need four people (he will be the
fifth) for the OCT team.
Policies
From now on Minutes will be distributed the
following Monday by the President after the BOD meeting. Directors will have
until COB Thursday to make corrections, deletions and amendments and the
Minutes will then be distributed on that Friday to the membership. Mr. Pike to
verify with our NAATS Newsletter editor that the 15th is an accurate deadline
and the Newsletter will be distributed by the 1st of the month.
Constitution mailing to new members. It was verified that the NAATS
Constitution is being mailed to new members.
SW Region will look into picking up the OEX representation responsibilities
for our students.
Mr. Hoover discussed the NAATS Administrator position and expense
reimbursement. The BOD had dialog around how best to staff this position,
employees� credentials and terms of employment. Mr. Pike made a presentation
on the history leading to the constitutional amendment that brought an
Administrator into the NAATS organization. Subgroup formed - Ms. Holmes, Mr.
Hoover and Mr. Jaffe to work with Legal Counsel Arthur Fox to come up with a
job description.
Ms. Homes wants some members to go through the constitution and look at
changes that have to be made. It was agreed that she, Mr. Simpson, Mr.
McLennan, Mr. Stafford, Ms. Colquitt, Mr. Terry and Ms. Breen would do this.
Mr. Jaffe wanted to talk about call transferring. The various regions
discussed how this is handled in their areas.
Future Meetings �It was agreed to have one general membership meeting. We are
looking at the week of April 8th or April 15th.
Board of Directors Meetings for �02� Washington DC the week of the 13th of
January. Week of July 15th in DC. Week of October 7th, meeting to be in DC.
For the new BOD Ms. Breen, Ms. Mazziotti and Mr. Malon explained what the ATX,
ARW, and ATP liaison jobs entail to the new BOD.
Mr. Dolan has talked to ATX about the intranet access availability at all
facilities. ATX is to have a workgroup concerning traffic count the week of
October 29th. Names of NAATS attendees are Linda Sterling, Alan Baker, Kate
Breen, Al Osborn, and Don McLennan.
Staffing � Mr. Dolan is negotiating numbers with FAA headquarters. Much
conversation from directors on how much they need in their regions, and how
will the people be distributed. Mr. Dolan will distribute to the BOD
Management 1 proposal for input.
Ms. Holmes talks about the Southwest region grievance settlement on the last
chance agreement. Mr. Pike to send a letter to Thoman and to some way notify
the membership once Ms. Colquitt, who was the one who did all the work on this
grievance, forwards all info to NAATS HQ so letter can be sent.
Discussion about Mr. Pike�s updates to the membership. Some talk that they are
too detailed. Mr. Pike feels, and most agree, that the more specific is better
than to go back to just general explanations. No change in policy.
Mr. Pike will respond to ALR�s letter on pay negotiations and a copy of both
will go on our website.
FSDPS � Don McLennan- He goes over the history of the agreement signed
concerning what was to happen to our FSDPS members when the FSDPS closes down.
He advises the Board that if anyone has any questions to call him. Mr.
McLennan said we are down to a little less then a 100 members.
IOU - Mr. Dolan to work with Mr. Dibble to put the MOUs on the Web site. Mr.
Stafford also would like MOUs and ULPs on the web site, Action Item, Mr.
Glowacki.
IOU - Mr. Dolan to send out addresses of web sites that have travel
information and per diem rates.
Facility reimbursement � Mr. Hoover plans on setting up an account for his
facilities so that facilities can have parties, union meetings etc. He
believes that somehow we should get money back to our members.
Mr. McLennan stated that his region is virtually unanimous in wanting the work
rules (TAUs) ratified and that they are tired of waiting on the pay. He feels
this is indicative of the membership nationally. Mr. Pike was hesitant since
this was discussed at STL and the FacReps voiced they wanted to hold the
contract and see what happens in October. Also the same happened at the
national meeting last year. Mr. McLennan feels that we should go back out to
the members and see if maybe we should try to ratify the work rules without
the pay. Board feels that membership should be polled again if pay is further
delayed. Mr. Pike takes action item to do so if pay is not completed this
year.
Meeting adjourned.
|