Thanks to the efforts of PASS working with Aeronautical Center leadership, personnel and students at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center may now opt-in to receive email notifications and/or text messages to any SMS-enabled phone regarding various events and emergencies that occur at the Aeronautical Center. This has been an area of concern for some time now and PASS has worked to bring attention to the issue.
The PASS national office will be changing locations!
Earlier this month, PASS provided information on the Office Of Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. PASS is continuing to monitor the information and would like to provide you with some additional information.
PASS is pleased to announce that Flight Standards employees in the 220 and 230 branches working in the Northwest Mountain regional office will soon be able to vote to be included in the PASS Flight Standards bargaining unit. Because of the way the bargaining unit is defined in the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) certification, Flight Standards employees situated in the FAA’s regional offices are not automatically represented by PASS and, upon a showing of interest, we have individually organized each regional office. Now the Northwest Mountain has the opportunity to join their colleagues in the Central, Southern, Alaska and New England regional offices who have previously voted to be included in the Flight Standards bargaining unit.
PASS members in the Northwest Mountain region may not realize that they have a prolific author in their midst. Working in the IT field at the FAA, Jim E. Reames, Chapter NW3, spends his spare time writing—and publishing—his novels. Most recently, he has released his fifth novel titled “The Billionaire’s Son,” which is available for purchase as an e-book and paperback on Amazon.
Earlier this month, PASS Region III Vice President Dennis Cherwinski and Chapter NV3 Legislative Committee Chair Patrick Peterson had the unique opportunity of attending the inaugural Titus Aviation Symposium hosted by Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee. Held in Las Vegas, the conference brought together a diverse selection of national aviation and aerospace leaders with federal officials to discuss the importance of various sectors of the aviation industry.
