Executive Council Statement
On the Service of Paul Rinaldi
… the service of Paul Rinaldi, retired president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). Determined to lead by example, Rinaldi embraced the role of facility representative at the Washington–Dulles Air Traffic Control Tower … four terms until his retirement from the position in 2021. When he took office, NATCA members were suffering under imposed work and pay rules. But, within a couple of years, Federal Labor Relations Authority Chairman Ernest DuBester said the … legislation and in NATCA’s groundbreaking 2016 collective bargaining agreement with the FAA, he secured the union’s right to have a seat at the table to take part in the decisions being made to modernize technologies and procedures that …