Guilford Transport boss set out to destroy Pan Am union - claim

Airline Industry Information, Oct 15, 2004

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US District Judge Joseph DiClerico has stopped Pan Am Airlines from attempting to transfer its passenger services to an non-unionised subsidiary, calling it a direct attempt to destroy a union.

DiClerico told the airline to restore the rates and conditions of its workers to what they were in July 2004 and banned the company's non-unionised subsidiary Boston-Maine Airways from flying Boeing 727 aircraft and other large jets which are used on Pan Am routes, as well as barring Pan Am from transferring any aircraft to Boston-Maine Airways.

The ruling was made on the basis of former Pan Am boss Linda Toth's testimony to the court in which she claimed that David Fink, the CEO of Pan Am and Boston-Maine's parent company Guilford Transport, deeply disliked the Air Line Pilots Association and that he spoke of getting rid of 'the union jackasses', reports The Associated Press.

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