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...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...
Some of the rank-and-file controllers have started procedures to establish a new union to replace PATCO, which was smashed in the 1981 strike. The Administration's dismissal of 11,500 strikers, although politically popular, is still hotly argued from a safety standpoint. Claims Ray Brown, an ALPA executive and air-safety consultant, about the Administration: "Instead of listening to the message, it killed the messenger. Now the message has resurfaced because the new people are expressing the same problems...
...lower qualifications than they did in the past. Newcomers are being promoted from the flight engineer's chair to the right-hand seat (the first officer's) and then to the left seat (the captain's) after logging fewer flying hours. "The , apprenticeship system doesn't exist anymore," claims ALPA's Duffy. Three major airlines -- United, American and Piedmont -- are for the first time hiring pilots who are past...