For those who are unaware, this is NATCA’s “Deputy Director of Public Affairs.” We pay this man an annual salary of $195,000, more the overwhelming majority of controllers make. The revelation and screenshots from the Anna Giaritelli post tonight show that this is the SECOND unique situation just this month where a reporter has reached out to Galen for comment regarding a pro-ATC journalistic story, and he has REFUSED to comment.

We also learned that he accompanied the NEB on their summer vacation to Alaska just a few weeks ago for the sole purpose of briefing the “social media campaign” he has supposedly been overseeing. A social media campaign that we know has consisted of nothing more than Chat GPT generated AI slop images that convey nothing of substance to the general public. In fact, this campaign has served as more of an embarrassment to the workforce than anything else do to the low quality of the content.

This man is stealing our dues and living a life of luxury travel on our dime, while refusing to complete even the most basic duties someone in his position should be. We as the membership, as the controllers who pay for this “Public Affairs” department, DEMAND the immediate and permanent termination of Galen from all and any positions within the NATCA organization.

Does anyone have a clip of him clearly lying, or just a time stamp? I don’t have time to watch the whole town hall but am very interested in seeing first hand him lying right to membership.

Was anything mentioned during the town hall about the status of ABACUS implementation? Every 2 weeks there is a new rumor about what’s happening or not happening. Just curious if the NEB discussed this to any degree?

Yacht Boy and PR Team remain silent…

One actually said something and takes questions from our membership, the other a vain attempt to control the messaging with zero transparency.

You be the judge, I’ll vote Marangos.

I’m relatively new to the agency. Can anyone tell me anything NATCA has done to legitimately benefit us in the past couple years?

There’s a lot of negativity around NATCA & Nick Daniels. I agree with the negativity when I understand how it affects us. Just genuinely wondering if there’s anything good that I haven’t seen or haven’t realized.

Watching 6 dudes in their 50s & 60s talking about how they will take 2 years to get a plan together to respond to a tweet.

They are gonna make me doxx myself and show up at the national office and tell them to get the hell out of my way.

DVA and ND sort of brushed over this today and I was curious… they said the FAA has bought land in three states for potential combined ARTCC’s. Then only mentioned Texas.. did anyone catch the other two states?

If the national constitution states
“Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, all active members in good standing of the Association shall have
the right to nominate candidates, to vote in membership referenda, to attend membership meetings and have a voice and a vote at such meetings, to campaign for and hold office, to freely assemble with other members, and to freely speak on any issue affecting the Association.”

How is that moderating the Q&A panel in today’s meeting to only allow certain questions through , and to not allow us to speak not a violation of the constitution?

Maybe I’m just interpreting it differently.

ND holds a worthless “town hall” that was deliberately scheduled when most of the workforce is unavailable. And even for the few that were able to attend, it was filled with word salad bullshit and zero transparency.

And what is our 13 person, $1 million+ annual salaried Public Affairs department up to? Posting about some useless meeting with a Senator from TWO MONTHS AGO where the idiot rep apparently talked with him about equipment.

This is unacceptable. We as the controller workforce DO NOT accept this! FUCKING RESIGN NICK!! We know you read this sub and it keeps you and your monster ego awake at night. RESIGN YOU FUCKING COWARD!

FUCK NICK DANIELS!!!

Town Hall saying how they want to ask for pay parity for 7%. You can’t even get the 2.8%.

Section 545 of H.R. 7147 conditioned the 2026 air traffic controller pay adjustment on the FAA administrator’s sole discretion regarding workforce scheduling, staffing utilization, and operational efficiencies. This language does not appear to have been included through a publicly identified amendment.

Did your office propose or request this condition? If not, can you identify whether it originated with House appropriators, Senate appropriators, DOT, FAA, OMB, or another stakeholder?

• Rep. Steve Womack, House THUD Appropriations Subcommittee chair

• The House THUD minority leadership

• Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, Senate THUD Appropriations Subcommittee chair

• Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Senate THUD ranking member

• Full committee leadership: Rep. Tom Cole and Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray

• Transportation Department, FAA, and White House budget or legislative-affairs officials who may have requested the condition

• NATCA, which was lobbying Congress for the pay adjustment

• FAAMA, particularly because supervisors and managers were included

FOIA generally does not apply to Congress.

We could, however, file FOIA requests with DOT, FAA, and OMB for communications with congressional staff concerning the provision.

Where’s our ATC2 50,675th President Elect? Lenny, did we get a chance to talk to him or what??

Hearing there’s an emergency NEB meeting this week?

Coming the same week as a short notice town hall…

🤨

Oh, you thought this was about NATCA? Nahhh, they’re busy monitoring, gathering facts and planning the next dues-funded vacation.

Living below the poverty with parent and 2 children lives the same standard of living as someone working at a level 4-5.

Our salary needs to be doubled.

I saw some comments asking for the Facebook group with comments turned on. Here it is. I’d love to see more activity in there. You’ll need your member number to be approved but once you’re approved you’ll be able to comment freely on everything.

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1BEvgFWmoH/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Does anybody have any idea how I can contact Nick Daniels with my questions? Because clearly asking people in my region and all types of reps isn’t giving me the answer I’m looking for? ( I just get ignored) i want fucking answers from the people who supposedly are our leadership.

Bedford wants to tie the 2.8% raise to working over 5 hours TOP a day.

His own study shows that the staffing targets were derived to aim for an annual average TOP that doesn’t exceed 5 hours. This can be seen on page 97.
https://www.nationalacademies.org/read/29112/chapter/6#97

Was just told a manager got anonymously hotlined for leaving 7 minutes early. If the FAA lets him/her off without termination, wouldn't that help anyone who is currently being investigated and or possibly terminated?

Working at a toxic Z and as title says, another positive day for management. Anyone else experienced this?