NEW WIFI PROTOCOL!

All,

After much hard work from Matt Coughlin and Devin Carlisto we are happy to roll out our new, much more secure wifi setup. There is a short process to get you going on it but I promise it’s pretty easy. Here are the steps:

1. Join the NATCA-Members Wifi (password: membersonly)

2. You will get a pop-up “splash” page similar to what happens when you attempt to join a hotel’s wifi. On that screen there will be an email (natcazsewifi@gmail.com). Send an email to that address requesting a login for the wifi.

3. Once you receive a reply with your username and password, rejoin the NATCA_Members wifi and log in with the username and password that was emailed to you.

You could also just directly email natcazsewifi@gmail.com to get your sign-in and then access the wifi with that username and password. Please retain this username and password as you will be using it for all your devices. Do not share this password with anyone, every member will have their own. Matt and Devin are processing thee all individually so please be patient when waiting for your sign in information.

Thanks again to Matt and Devin for their hard work on this.

We expect to begin briefing the MOUs to you all in the next few weeks and then bidding shortly after that. Not much else to add at this time. Please let us know if you have any issues.

Drew & Amy

Labor Day

Good Afternoon ZSE,

I know a lot of us are working but hopefully some people are getting some well deserved rest and relaxation today. Being Labor Day we thought it was important to highlight a couple of important facts surrounding the tumultuous and often deadly history that got us here today.

Labor Day Became an Official Holiday 12 Years After the First Labor Day Event

The first U.S. Labor Day was celebrated September 5, 1882, in New York City. The Central Labor Union organized a parade for workers. Workers took unpaid leave and marched through the city. At that time, most Americans worked 12-hour days, seven-days a week to make ends meet. On June 28, 1894, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. Oregon was the first state to celebrate Labor Day as a legal holiday in 1887.

The Difference Between Labor Day & May Day

May Day and Labor Day are often confused. While May Day actually originated in the U.S., it is not a federal holiday; however, it is a recognized holiday in over 80 countries across the world. Why not the U.S.? Because on May 4, 1886, a labor union rally (calling for shorter working hours) in Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned violent when a bomb exploded in the crowd, killing seven police officers and four civilians. What became known as the Haymarket Riot outraged working people and their allies across the world, and they started May Day to remember its martyrs and celebrate the struggles of working people. However, when choosing a day for Labor Day, President Cleveland chose the first Monday in September as a way to avoid commemorating the Haymarket Riot, fearing it would build support for communism or other radical causes.

We as a society have come a long way from working 12 hour days, 7 days a week but the work is never done. Our economy as we know it would be nothing without the American worker and we have to remain vigilant to not only retain what we have fought for but continue to fight for what we deserve. 

If you are interested, here are a couple of very interesting articles highlighting some of the hard fought labor battles, one of the most brutal being the Everett Massacre that took place right here in Washington in 1916.

Everett Massacre

Mental Floss: 6 Deadly Labor Disputes

In Solidarity,

Amy Sizemore

Facility Update August 25th

Reloaded Workshop 

The NATCA Reloaded Committee is going to hold a regional class here in Seattle on September 26-27. The class will be from noon Monday until 2pm Tuesday. The workshop is for any Northwest Mountain Region NATCA member who has a desire for self improvement and strengthening their local. The Leadership Workshop will be tailored to our audience, to give you some new tools and dust off some old ones. The workshop is for all members - those with veteran NATCA experience and those that are just starting on their NATCA journey. You don't need a title to be a leader. 

• This will be downtown Seattle. If you plan on staying the night, please register HERE. ****TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO GUARANTEE A ROOM****

Save the Date: NATCA Retirement Planning

Drew has been working with Cambridge Financial Partners to get a person in the building to answer any of your retirement questions. Anthony Lee will be here the afternoon of October 26th and the morning of October 27th.

Activism and Training Expo (ATX)

NATCA will be holding its first Activism and Training Expo (ATX) will be held from Dec. 12-16. This event will be an opportunity for our Union to educate, inspire, and motivate both experienced leaders and new members.

 It will be a five-day event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas that will showcase all of NATCA’s current training opportunities along with some briefings and education by many of our committee and Article 114 reps regarding their projects. We envision this becoming a biennial event that motivated NATCA members can attend to increase their knowledge on a variety of work and safety related topics and expand our Union’s influence.

 Whether you can attend for the entire five days or only one, the Expo will provide value to any member.

Registration information will be forthcoming but save the dates today.

I’ll be out of the facility on leave next week but will be able to check emails if you need anything.

Amy Sizemore

All Members Meeting Minutes 8/13

Hey everybody! The minutes from the all members meeting last Saturday are below.

Chico

All Members Meeting 8/19/22 Rainbow Cafe

Start time:  3:32 PM Food:  Appetizers provided by ZSE Natca Local

Attendance:  Amy Sizemore (FacRep), Drew Stewart (VP), James “Chico” Eastham (Secretary), Matt Braunstein, Katrina Linder

Constitutional Amendments - 

There are a couple changes to our local constitution.  The first change is to make elections easier.  It changes the start date for elected officials to January 1st rather than have it tied to the first day of the first pay period for that year.  The second change removes the nomination window (August 1-15 currently) and changes it to a deadline.  The election committee will set that deadline.  There was a motion to accept these changes, and it passed unanimously.

Last Meeting’s Minutes - 

There was a motion to adopt the minutes from the last meeting.  The motion passes.

Construction - 

There are a lot of scheduled construction projects for the building, but most of them have been postponed.  They are going to replace the control room doors, repave the parking lot, build an ADA compliant walkway, among other things.  They were postponed for now.  There are also some very tentative early plans for changing out the kitchen area (former HTH Cafe) and making it more accessible and usable for everyone.

Safety Class - 

There was a safety class recently that four people were able to attend.  It went over things like QC and the LSC.  There was some good information for our facility.  We are going to try and get more official time for the LSC to do their work, instead of having them solely work during their free time.

Staffing - 

All areas are pretty short at the moment.  As of right now, the D-area is getting a transfer, the B-area is getting a new academy grad, the A-area is short but they currently don’t have the staffing to train any more new controllers, the C-area is also short and may get the next person in the building.  If we get another NCEPT list we might be able to get one person from that.

Nearly every facility in the NAS is doing six day workweeks.  Until ZSE is doing that, it could be tough to get more staffing.  Staffing is being directed to those facilities that are working a lot of overtime.  It is possible that they adjust our numbers down if they see our building working fine with the people we have.  Some facilities are doing 25 min breaks and 5.5 hours TOP.

Nationally, FAA Finances are the ones who control staffing levels.  Next September the FAA Reauthorization bill will be coming up, and NATCA is pushing to take controllers out of that.  Pay is difficult to negotiate because federal employees are capped.

Dan wonders if the FAA has considered trying to change how they place new controllers and if NATCA could provide any input there.  There seem to be so many that certify and then look to transfer.  Unfortunately, NATCA doesn’t represent any of the new controllers at the academy, so they really can’t help with that.

Meeting Adjourned 4:21 PM

Facility Update August 12th

All Members Meeting

All members meeting tomorrow at the Rainbow Cafe in Auburn. The meeting will start at 3:30 but show up as early as 3 to get food, etc. Agenda items:

• Local Constitution Amendments

• LR update

• Construction

• Safety Class Recap

Links:

Rainbow Cafe Map

Proposed Constitutional Amendments

Last meeting’s minutes

WiFi Outage

There will be an intermittent WiFi outage on Tuesday. The hardware has finally arrived to start changing the system over to an individual login rather than a shared password. Expect more on that later when it’s finalized.

Amazing Work

Last week there were a couple of days that Canada ATC had critical staffing issues and they ended up having to route many aircraft into our airspace so as to keep traffic safely moving. I got a bunch of emails and texts expressing gratitude from the RVP of that area and he wanted to buy you all some pizza. I will be bringing in some tomorrow around 2pm.

Thank you all for the amazing work you do!

Amy Sizemore