Word: alpa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier yesterday, Eastern asked a federal judge in Miami to order members of the Air Lines Pilots Association (ALPA) to return to work. The ALPA, meanwhile, announced plans for a job action starting this morning that could delay every flight on every airline in the nation...
...pilots are conducting their own economic strike against the company," Matell said. "We believe that it is an illegal weapon to gain ALPA's economic objectives...
...Harvard should not be proud of Frank Lorenzo," said E.J. Breen, the head of the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA), the union primarily responsible for organizing the rally. "The Business School holds him up to be a great American business leader but we don't believe him to be such. We think he represents everything wrong with big business today...
...airline employees will meet early thismorning near Logan International Airport to hold a"pre-rally rally." The ALPA scheduled the rallywith the support of two other airline unions, theTransport Workers Union which representrs flightattendants and the International Association ofMachinists...
Lorenzo dismisses such worries as ridiculous. "Continental is the safest airline in the sky," he asserts. "Nothing has a higher priority." He attributes much of the grousing to propaganda emanating from the Air Line Pilots Association as it tries to reorganize Continental's 3,500 pilots. So far, ALPA claims, 35% of the line's pilots have shown interest in joining up. An election could be held next year...