ALPA News
Updated:
October 31, 2000
Of the 8,871 pilots eligible to vote, 8,029
cast ballots. Of those voting 7,663 or 95.4% voted in favor of the new collective
bargaining agreement.
UAL-MEC Chairman Rick Dubinsky said, “I would like to thank every pilot at United
whose support has made this noteworthy achievement possible. The unity of the United
pilots was key to our success in reaching this historic contract — the best pilot
agreement ever achieved in the history of the airline business. The ratification of this
contract makes the United Airlines pilots the industry-leaders they deserve to be.”
United Airlines is majority-owned by its employees of which the United pilots own
approximately 25 percent.
October
23, 2000
Air BC Captain Elected ALPA Executive
Vice President
Captain Kent F.J. Hardisty of Air BC has
been elected as an executive vice president of the Air Line Pilots Association,
International.
He was elected Wednesday at ALPA’s
biennial Board of Directors’ meeting. He will serve as one of nine executive vice
presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the Executive Council,
one of the Association’s governing bodies.
Captain Hardisty, who flies the de
Havilland Dash 8, has been employed by Air BC for 13 years. During his tenure with ALPA
and the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association, which merged with ALPA in 1998, he has
served as Canada Board vice-president and director to the prestigious International
Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations, which represents 90 pilot organizations and
over 100,000 pilots around the world. He served three terms as chairman for the Air BC
pilots’ Master Executive Council, which is the ALPA’s highest representative group at each
of its airlines. Captain Hardisty was an active member of the ALPA/CALPA Merger Committee,
and also served as a member of the Time Air/Norcanair Merger Committee and AirBC Pension
Board.
Captain Hardisty, a native of Victoria,
and his wife, Kerri May Hegstrom, live with their son, Grant, in Kelowna, British
Columbia. Like her husband, Capt. Hegstrom flies the de Havilland Dash 8 for Air BC.
Emery Captain
Elected ALPA Executive
Vice President
He was elected to a two-year term
Wednesday at ALPA’s biennial Board of Directors meeting. He will serve as one of nine
executive vice presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the
Executive Council, one of the association’s governing bodies.
Captain Rachford, who flies the DC-8,
has been employed by Emery for seven of his 20 years as an airline pilot. Within the pilot
union, he has served for two terms as chairman of the Emery pilots’ Master Executive
Council, which is the union’s highest representative group at each of its airlines. He
spent three years organizing Emery pilots to support union representation and join ALPA.
Captain Rachford attended the Northrup
Institute of Technology as well as West Los Angeles College. He and his wife, Julie, have
been married for 11 years and have a daughter, Paris and a son, TJ-Nile.
A native of Riverside, California,
Rachford now lives in Chandler, Arizona He is the son of Captain and Mrs. Fred Rachford of
Woodstock, Illinois. The elder Captain Rachford is a retired United Airlines pilot, with
34 years of commercial piloting experience.
Allegheny Captain
Reelected ALPA Executive Vice President
He was elected to a third two-year term
Wednesday at ALPA’s biennial Board of Directors meeting. He will serve as one of nine
executive vice presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the
Executive Council, one of the association’s governing bodies.
Captain Kernan, who flies the DHC-8,
has been employed by Allegheny since 1990. Within the pilot union, he has served on the
Allegheny Airlines System Board of Adjustment, which hears grievance matters, and on the
Negotiating Committee. For the past six years, he has been chairman of the Allegheny
pilots Master Executive Council, which is the union’s highest representative group at each
of its airlines.
Captain Kernan has completed coursework
at Tidewater Community College, Antioch University, and the George Meany Center for Labor
Studies in Silver Spring, Maryland. He and his wife, the former Christi Smith, live with
their two daughters, Caitlin and Anna, in Lebanon, Pa.
A native of Rockville, Maryland, he is
the son of Captain and Mrs. Joseph Kernan of Suffolk, VA. The elder Captain Kernan is a
retired US Airways pilot.
Mesa Pilot Elected
ALPA Executive Vice President
Captain Hughes was elected Wednesday at
ALPA’s biennial Board of Directors’ meeting. He will serve as one of nine executive
vice presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the Executive
Council, one of the Association’s governing bodies.
Captain Hughes, 40, flies the Canadair
Regional Jet for Mesa. Within the pilot union, he has served as chairman, vice-chairman,
and secretary of the Mesa pilots’ Master Executive Council, the union’s highest
representative group at each of its member airlines. He was captain representative for
several local councils as well as a member of the MEC Professional Standards Committee. He
also chaired the MEC Grievance and Merger committees.
A graduate of Parks College of St.
Louis University, Captain Hughes earned a bachelor of science degree in aircraft
maintenance engineering in 1981.
Captain Hughes and his wife of 19
years, Lori, reside in Peoria, Arizona with their three children, Christopher, Justin, and
Amber.
Captain Bernard
Reelected ALPA Executive
Vice President
He was elected Wednesday at ALPA’s
biennial Board of Directors meeting. He will serve as one of nine executive vice
presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the Executive Council,
one of the Association’s governing bodies.
Captain Bernard, 56, flies the MD-80
for Alaska. He had previously flown for Jet America Airlines and the Flying Tiger Line.
He earned a bachelor of science degree
in accounting from the University of Colorado in 1966, and an MBA in finance and
accounting from the University of Michigan in 1973.
He also had a 20-year career in the
U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve, retiring in 1986 as a Captain.
He and his wife, the former Beverly
Schiffman of Silver Spring, MD, live in La Jolla, CA.
US Airways Pilot
Reelected ALPA Executive
Vice President
Captain Morrow was elected Wednesday at
ALPA’s biennial Board of Directors’ meeting. He will serve as one of nine executive
vice presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the Executive
Council, one of the Association’s governing bodies.
Captain Morrow, 47, flies the F-100 for
US Airways. Within the pilot union, he has served as communications chair of the US
Airways pilot group, as editor of the group’s magazine, US Airwaves,
vice-chairman of the US Airways pilots’ Master Executive Council, the union’s highest
representative group at each of its member airlines.
Captain Morrow and his wife, the former
Denise Flodquist, reside in Clearwater, Fl. Captain Morrow has three children, Myron,
Alisa, and Brittany. A native of McKinney, Texas, he is the son of Doyle and Beverly
Morrow.
United Captain
Reelected ALPA Executive
Vice President
He was elected Wednesday at ALPA’s
biennial Board of Directors’ meeting. He will serve as one of nine executive vice
presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the Executive Council,
one of the Association’s governing bodies.
Captain Dillon, 57, currently flies the
B-777 for United. Within ALPA, he served as a local council chairman and vice chairman,
and chaired the United Airlines pilots’ Master Executive Council National Affairs
Steering Committee. Dillon has also served on the ALPA Strike Audit Review Board and the
Finance and Support Structure Committee.
A retired Navy captain, he graduated
from St. Bernard College with bachelor’s degrees in economics and business. Captain Dillon
and wife, Peggy, currently reside in Fairfax City, Va.
Delta Captain
Elected ALPA Executive
Vice President
He was elected Wednesday at ALPA’s
biennial Board of Directors’ meeting. He will serve as one of nine executive vice
presidents who, along with ALPA’s four national officers, make up the Executive Council,
one of the Association’s governing bodies.
Captain Morus, 43, currently flies the
B-767 for Delta. Within ALPA, he has served as secretary-treasurer for the Delta pilots’
Master Executive Council, the union’s highest representative group at each of its member
airlines. He was secretary-treasure for several of Delta’s local councils and worked as
chairman for Delta’s BOD 2000 planning committee. Captain Morus also has chaired the Delta
MEC Drug Testing Task Force.
A former Air Force pilot, he holds a
master of science degree in Industry and Technology from Northern Illinois University and
a bachelor of science degree from San Jose State University in Aeronautics.
Born in White Plains, New York, he is
the son of Regina D. Morus of Danville, California and the late Captain Robert Morus. The
elder Captain Morus, now deceased, was an ALPA member and Pan Am pilot.
October 19,
2000
ALPA Takes Initiative
to Unite Pilots
under One Union
The Board of Directors of the Air Line
Pilots Association, International (ALPA) has overwhelmingly approved a sweeping resolution
to work toward bringing all airline pilots in the U.S. and Canada under one union roof.
The action was taken today at ALPA’s
biennial Board meeting. The Board of Directors is composed of the elected officers from
all 49 ALPA airline properties, ranging from megacarriers such as United, Delta,
Northwest, and US Airways, to dozens of regional, cargo and charter carriers in the U.S.
and Canada.
“This is a watershed event for
airline pilots,” said Capt. Duane Woerth, president of ALPA. “For the first time
in the history of commercial aviation, we see the realistic prospect of uniting all
airline pilots in the U.S. and Canada under one international union.”
“ALPA began to look toward
unifying pilot representation with the advent of the globalization of the airline industry
a decade ago. It was clear to us that managements were positioning themselves to be able
to use divide-and-conquer strategies against individual unions,” Woerth said.
“We achieved the first major step
toward our goal when the Canadian ALPA agreed to merge with us, and today’s action
will further intensify our efforts. We already have had exploratory talks with the pilots
at American, Continental, Continental Express, and FedEx. And at Air Canada, there will be
a representation election in the next few months that we are hoping will bring them into
the ALPA fold,” Woerth said.
Under the Board resolution, all members
in good standing from a merged union will be offered ALPA membership. The leadership of
the Allied Pilots Association, representing American’s pilots, recently appointed a
committee to study the benefits of being represented by ALPA, following the same action
taken earlier by the FedEx pilots; and leaders of the Independent Association of
Continental Pilots will meet next week with ALPA representatives for further talks.
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| October 25, 2000 United Airlines Pilots Ratify Contract The United Airlines Pilots Master Executive Council (UAL-MEC), a unit of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), today announced that the United pilots have overwhelmingly voted to ratify the tentative agreement reached Aug. 26 between ALPA and United Airlines.
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