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...outcome represented the I.A.M.'s fifth failure to get a union shop at Lockheed. Nor was the I.A.M. or the competing United Auto Workers doing much better in other West Coast aerospace plants. Unlike Gross, executives at North American Aviation, Ryan and Convair agreed to put the issue to a direct vote, but in each case the unions failed to gain the required two-thirds majority. The question is also being fought at Boeing, where management is holding out against a union shop even though employees in a non-binding poll have already voted overwhelmingly in favor...
Albertson, 46, last week landed his Mohawk Airlines' twin-engined Convair smoothly and watched his 21 passengers debark. Then Albertson strolled to the terminal building-where he fell dead of a heart attack. His passengers could only count their blessings-and wonder what would have happened if Albertson had been stricken a few minutes earlier...
...majority would be required for approval of the union shop, and it looked as though Lockheed could scarcely lose such a vote: little more than half its eligible workers are union members, and the union shop idea has recently been voted down at North American Aviation, Ryan Aeronautical and Convair. But Gross would have nothing to do with any election that might force a man to join a union or lose his job. "A basic freedom,'' Gross argued, "is not something to be voted away...
Involved in the ruling was a Northeast Airlines Convair that left New York's La Guardia Airport on Aug. 15, 1958, crashed while approaching Nantucket Island, Mass., and killed 25. One New York passenger's widow, Mrs. John S. Pearson, sued Northeast in a New York court, won $160,000. When the airline appealed, a three-judge federal panel upheld its claim that since the crash occurred in Massachusetts (where claims at the time were limited to $15,000), the case should have been tried there. But the full court, in a rehearing, reversed the decision. Said...
...nation's largest defense contractor. General Dynamics snapped back from a loss of $143 million in 1961 to post a profit of $34 million during 1962's first nine months. Much of the comeback resulted from General Dynamics' decision to write off the losses from its Convair 880 and 990 jets in a single year (1961) instead of spreading them over several years, and its prudent use of tax advantages. But the black ink also reflected a newly lean, hard look in the company's top management...