Word: sayen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American Airlines moved closer to settling the 2½-week-old walkout of 1,500 pilots. American's gritty President C. R. Smith flew to Washington for a summit conference with the hard-bitten boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association, Clarence Sayen. Pressure was on both sides to settle before American starts to lay off most of its 20,500 nonstriking employees this week. Probable terms: three pilots in jets, higher pilot pay and improved benefits...
...Line Pilots Association, led by President Clarence Sayen, 39, also talked tough. Sayen, once a professional pilot for Braniff, blasted American Airlines as having the "worst goddamned labor relations of practically any industry." For 17 months at American, company and union have been feuding not only over the third man but over hefty demands for higher pay, shorter hours for pilots (65 in the air instead of the present 85 a month), fatter retirement benefits, increased meal and overnight room allowances. The big item is pay. The average DC-7 captain gets $19,221 a year: American is offering...
...Jobs? No one knows how far the pilots will go to enforce their demands. Striking Western, with 263 pilots drawing strike benefits of $650 per month, and striking American, with 1,541 pilots needing the same benefits, are two different matters. Yet the A.L.P.A., headed by President Clarence N. Sayen, says flatly that "unless the third man is a pilot, we will not operate jets." The pilots' real fear is that the bigger, faster jets will mean smaller airline fleets and thus fewer jobs unless they win the third-man spot. But the history of air travel has proved...
...negotiations with United Air Lines this year, the pilots got fed up with Behncke's dragging, nagging way of doing things. They finally bypassed him as bargainer, picked Union Vice President Clarence Sayen, the 32-year-old pilot who shortly before had negotiated a contract with Pan American World Airways. Said one union member: "We're sick and tired of Behncke's thousand-word telegrams giving the world 24 hours to get out." Behncke was furious. He fired Sayen and two other union officials. But the executive board countermanded the orders...
...week A.L.P.A.'s executive board had enough. In a session that broke up at dawn, the union's directors kicked Behncke out of the presidency, retired him on a pension of $15,000 a year, equal to his salary as president. A.L.P.A.'s new president: Clarence Sayen. Cried ex-President Behncke, who threatened to take the whole matter to court: "Illegal Putsch...