Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision was a major victory for the pilots, who no longer needed to fear that the greater speed and capacity of the jets would bring pilot layoffs or demotions. It did not satisfy the six American pilots who make up the negotiating team, all of them lower-paid junior pilots. When the representative of the parent A.L.P.A. urged the team to accept a settlement, they ordered him to leave the negotiating talks. Just 14 minutes before the strike deadline, they brought in a dozen more demands, including such fringes as private rooms for all pilots during layovers. The talks collapsed...
...tactical move. Smith then withdrew his offer to put a third pilot in the jets. Most executives of other airlines oppose the costly third pilot, but know that they will have to go along with it if American finally agrees. Last week the National Mediation Board suggested a new contract that would lift top jet-pilot pay to $28,340 for 85 hours a month in a jet, up from $19,221 for a top DC-7 captain, plus sweeter benefits. American, losing $1,000,000 a day. immediately accepted. At week's end the truculent pilots had still...
...York's Idlewild Airport were "absolute chaos." United Air Lines flights were booked solidly for ten days in advance. National Airlines was flying 4,000 passengers daily-double its normal load-to and from Miami, some of them in the 707 jet that it has leased from Pan American. National leased eight other planes from such faraway carriers as Hawaiian Airlines, put employees on six-and seven-day weeks. National's President George ("Ted") Baker found the pressure so bad that he took off for three weeks' rest in Switzerland...
Mass production unions have been deeply affected by the fact that the unskilled worker, once the core of their power, has become the vanishing American. Highly mechanized plants have forced workers to develop new skills; the new class of skilled labor has fractured the monolithic front that the mass-production unions once presented to management. To hold the allegiance of skilled workers, unions are revising their organization. The U.A.W. recently amended its constitution to allow skilled workers to veto contract clauses that affect them, took great pains in last summer's contract negotiations to win an extra...
When Donald William Nyrop was elected president of Northwest Airlines in 1954, he figured that he was in for a rough ride. Northwest had a long history of woes with its planes, pilots, presidents (two chiefs in two years) and with Pan American World Airways, which was lobbying hard to bump Northwest off the lucrative Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run. By last week Don Nyrop, 46, had piloted Northwest through all those storms. In 1958, said Nyrop, the line's operating revenues climbed from $83.4 million to a record $101 million, and profits through November rose...