Word: alpa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After eleven years of one-man rule by irascible Clarence (Clancy) Sayen, the 14,000-member Air Line Pilots Association chose a new president: mild-mannered Charles Homer Ruby, 52. Backed by retiring President Sayen as a way of freezing out his arch-opponent, ALPA First Vice President John Carroll, Ruby is a onetime mechanic who has logged 20,000 flying hours in everything from chugging J-1s to jet-powered DC-8s, ranks No. 2 on National Airlines' seniority list. He inherits a Sayen-created impasse. The convention that elected Ruby also voted to continue the two-year...
Southern's 139 pilots and copilots, all ALPA members, walked off their jobs last June when Hulse turned down their demands for shorter hours, a boost in wages (captains were making an average of $13,000 annually) and changes in the working rules, notably the elimination of a clause in the company's manual that prohibits married pilots from dating stewardesses. Hulse said that the demands would boost the line's operating expenses $665,000 a year, and since he is already getting $3,200,000 a year in government subsidy, he was not at all sure...
Hulse went to work to hire pilots to replace the strikers, soon had a full crew who had been laid off by other lines. To go to work for Southern, some of them repudiated their ALPA memberships. The striking pilots, who get tax-free strike benefits of $710 a month from ALPA, fought back by picketing the Southern's offices, filed more than 100 suits against the company. By October Southern was not only flying all of its routes but also had added a new leg in Tennessee. There upon the striking pilots, backed by $300,000 from ALPA...