Who can become a member of the Dutch Association of Air Traffic Controllers' Guild?

Regular members are individuals employed by Air Traffic Control The Netherlands (LVNL) in one of the following functions:

• Air Traffic Controller
• Ground controller
• FIC Flight Information Service Officer
• Traffic Assistant
• Flight Service Specialist (FSC)

The Guild has ordinary Members, prospective members, honorary members and patrons. You can become a prospective  member of the Guild from the moment you are in training for a particular function. After obtaining your first rating or in case of a non-rating function, after you are qualified for your function , you become an ordinary member.

Guild membership is not available for other staff (technical, training or other support) at LVNL.

How do I sign up?

Send an e-mail to office@atc-gilde.nl and ask for an application form or ask Nel Schimpf, secretary of the Air Traffic Controllers Guild. She is present in the Guild Room A1.33 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

How many members does the Air Traffic Controllers Guild have?

The association consists of about 400 members, around 99% of all people that work in the operational service at LVNL. The board and various committees are made up of enthusiastic volunteers.
 
What can the Guild do for me?

The Guild represents the professional and union interests of its members.

Professional: issues related to tasks, performance, procedures, methods, etc.

Trade Union: if you are a guild member, you are automatically a member of union CMHF). Labor related negotiations are conducted by members of the Guild along with a representative of CMHF, directly with the board of LVNL. CMHF also provides legal service to members of the Guild.

Is it true that as a guild member discounts on insurance OHRA?

That is indeed. As a Guild member and therefore CMHF member you can take advantage of group discounts at OHRA. For more information on insurance you can call OHRA: (026) 400 4040 (tell them that you are a CMHF member).

How much does membership cost?

For prospective members (including students) membership costs € 15 per month.

For air traffic controllers and ground controllers membership costs € 25 per month and for other functions € 20 per month.

What is the Guild Day regulation?

The Guild uses the system of “guild days” to compensate time to members who work for the Guild.

A guild day is a holiday. Each guild member gives an authorization to the Guild to claim one guild day from their leave day total every year. This results in a stock of guild days.

Guild days are used by the Guild to compensate members who participate in  activities, for which LVNL does not provide compensation.

All Guild members that perform work for the Guild may apply for a guild day, not just members of the Guild Board.

Here is the text contained in the statutes and rules:

A. Guild Days are intended to compensate for the time members, including board and committee / working group members spend, or have spent, on union business and for which no compensation is provided by the employer.

B. All members of the Guild make available one day per calendar year as "Gildedag" by tranferring, at January 1 of each year, one leave day to the Guild.

C. The Board determines the use of the available days and is accountable to the annual general meeting.

D. The board maintains a register, or holds record, showing the use of the guild days.

E. A guild day requested by the board in a roster to be published is recognizable as a Vg. To bring a guild day in the already published roster is only possible after consultation or the activity will be compensated in a following roster.

F. If the surplus of available Guild Day is so great that the annual transfer of days can be omitted, then the board will propose this to the annual general meeting.

 
What rights do the Guild members have?

• Rights as a member:
• Voting rights at general meetings
• Membership of CMHF (our union)
• Use our travel agency (after one year membership)
• Gildebrief in postbox
• Monthly information bulletin by e-mail
• Perspectief (CMHF Journal) to home address

Rights as prospective member:

• As above except voting at general meetings, unless otherwise decided at the meeting
• Gildebrief to office / home address
• Information Bulletin via email (address at the secretariat) or home address

As a guild member you have the obligation to change your address, position, location, type of membership etc to pass through e-mail or a letter to our office (see above addresses). You have to adjust any changes to the fee yourself.

The consequences of failure to fulfill this requirement are the sole responsibility of the member.

The Guild conducts its own administration and accounting, which means that we do not receive any information from LVNL with respect to the above, and neither do we provide any information to LVNL