Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week the war of attrition between the largest U.S. overseas carrier and the strikers grew hotter. Weakened by the return to work of Pan Am's 1,400 pilots, the T.W.U. headed back to the bargaining table. But even as the talks resumed, Pan Am sent termination notices to more than 1,000 flight attendants who refused to cross picket lines and said it would replace them with new workers...
...Pan Am, facing an estimated $77 million in losses this year, sees the issue as nothing less than survival. The airline had some $400 million in cash reserves on hand when the walkout began, and was prepared to ride out a strike to win an acceptable contract...
...shifting its resources to protect its profitable overseas routes and using management employees to do the jobs of striking workers, Pan Am has been able to keep 137 of its 390 daily scheduled flights in operation. Thousands of passengers have been stranded from Istanbul to Rio, however, and others have endured service turbulence as supervisors performed such unfamiliar tasks as sorting baggage and serving meals. When a Manhattan traveler whose flight had been canceled demanded to see the management, his ticket agent growled, "I am the management...
Workers have been stunned by Pan Am's actions. In the past four years, employees have helped save the airline by agreeing to wage cuts and other concessions worth $500 million. Arguing that it was high time for the carrier to restore those lost earnings, the T.W.U. pushed for an immediate 14% pay boost. Instead, the company offered a 20% raise over three years. Among the other proposals rejected by the union were sharp reductions in pension and health-care benefits...
...control future expenditures, the company wants a two-tier wage scale of the sort that is becoming an industry standard, under which new employees would be paid less than present workers. In addition, Pan Am wants the right to hire more foreign nationals for overseas flights. The unions see these & measures as a threat to job security for U.S.-based workers. Said Mary Annis Moore, a representative of the Independent Union of Flight Attendants: "What Pan Am is doing is anti-American...