John H. Prater is a former American labor union leader.
He joined the Air Line Pilots' Association (ALPA), rising from chairing a strike committee, to chairing the Master Executive Council for Continental pilots.
In this role, he convinced the Independent Association of Continental Pilots to merge into ALPA, in 2001.
[1][2] In 2006, Prater was elected as president of ALPA, promising to bargain harder, strictly enforce existing contracts, and put more efforts into organizing pilots.
[1] In 2010, he was defeated for re-election as leader of ALPA by Lee Moak,[4] and in 2011 he left the AFL-CIO executive.