AL/BWS MOUs have been signed! Briefings will start Monday, and we will start bidding as soon as they are finished. As a reminder, you will only be bidding the BWS line initially. We will start round one of annual leave after BWS is done, perhaps sooner if the BWS bid goes smoothly. That will be left up to each area rep to decide for their area, but the main goal is to get the BWS bids back to the scheduler as soon as possible. OT MOU is basically agreed to, but it will be a couple of weeks before that one is finished.
All Members Meeting
Our next All Members meeting will be Monday, November 18th, at 1pm in the E/W Conference room. Agenda Items currently include:
Finance update and 2025 budget
Events Committee Update
NATCA Constitution Amendments
Please reply with any agenda items you wish to add. We will have lunch at 12:30. Not sure what we’ll be able to grab for this lunch but if you would like to volunteer to pick up something, we would gladly welcome the help!
2025 Calendars
November 8th is the last day to change your calendar preference in myNATCA. If you need help with navigating that website, please let us know.
Member in Need
Most people are aware of the Voluntary Leave Donation Program, it is intended to supplement someone’s leave balance when they have had to deplete it due to family or personal circumstances. We have someone in the facility who could use your help, Kieth Priebe has been approved to be on this program. He gave me permission to share his story:
“In August, I suffered a heart attack. I exhausted my leave relatively quickly and have spent the majority of the time I was out recovering on LWOP. Any help would be both incredibly generous and greatly appreciated!”
Thanks for reading Kieth’s story. Please consider donating any leave you can by accessing the link below behind an FAA firewall.
All leave donations must be made from an FAA computer https://ahrweb.faa.gov/ovltp/.
I will be at New York Center next week as part of team helping to review their training program. Drew will be the acting FacRep for the time, and I will be back next week.
Amy Sizemore