National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) President Paul Rinaldi issued this statement in support of Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, who were unanimously elected February 17th as President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively, of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), by the organization\u2019s Executive Committee. Rinaldi represents NATCA on the Executive Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOn behalf of NATCA Executive Vice President Trish Gilbert,\nthe NATCA National Executive Board, and the nearly 20,000 aviation safety\nprofessionals we represent, I want to extend my warmest congratulations to Greg\nand Shari on their election. We offer them our full support as they lead NATCA\nand our 32 fellow member unions of TTD at a time of great challenge, but also\ngreat opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur hearts remain heavy from the tragic loss last fall of\nformer TTD President Larry Willis. This has been a very difficult time for all\nwho knew and loved him. It is a tall task for Greg and Shari to step into these\nroles, but they do so on behalf of all of us in transportation labor because of\ntheir commitment to carrying forward the work Larry started, and their strong\npassion for fighting for transportation workers and their rights and careers.\nNATCA thanks them for this example of leadership and solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was a very positive and productive day Wednesday.\nPresident Biden met in the Oval Office with union leaders, including AFL-CIO\nPresident Richard Trumka and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, to discuss\ninfrastructure and how unions can lead the way in how we build back better. At\nthe TTD Executive Committee meeting, we met with Transportation Secretary Pete\nButtigieg and discussed federally mandated COVID-19 workplace protections,\nemergency transportation funding, and long-term infrastructure investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese are critically important days for our country and our\ntransportation industry and infrastructure. NATCA members continue to work\ncollaboratively with the Federal Aviation Administration to keep employees safe\nso that we can continue to move people, cargo, and the COVID-19 vaccine. We are\nproud to stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in transportation\nlabor. With Greg and Shari leading the way at TTD, we have enormous optimism\nfor our future as we work together to restore the strength of our aviation\nsystem and our transportation networks, which power our nation\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) President Paul Rinaldi issued this statement in support of Greg Regan and Shari Semelsberger, who were unanimously elected February 17th as President and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively, of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO (TTD), by the organization\u2019s Executive Committee. Rinaldi represents NATCA on the Executive Committee. \u201cOn behalf of NATCA Executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17753,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}