Attempts by acting FAA administrator Robert Sturgell to strike a new labor accord with the air traffic controllers union were not welcomed by the head of the organization.

Sturgell recently sent National Air Traffic Controllers Association President Patrick Forrey a letter that addressed controller pay rates.

But the overture did little to sway Forrey who says, “We have a right to a negotiated, ratifiable agreement.”

NATCA for more than a year has been trying to reverse a contract that FAA imposed on the union in September 2006 after negotiations collapsed. An existing law allowed FAA to force those changes after a 60-day Congressional review ended without modification to the administration’s contract proposal.

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