Union busting thwarted at BMAIR
PORTSMOUTH - A U.S. District Court judge has found that Pan Am Airlines illegally attempted to transfer its passenger service to a subsidiary airline with the intention of busting the Airline Pilots Association union and has put a stop to that process.
"Accordingly, the court adopts the magistrate’s determination that the transfer of 727 operations from Pan Am to Boston-Maine (Airlines) constituted a direct attempt to destroy a union," wrote Judge Joseph A. DiClerico Jr. in his decision issued Wednesday.
In that ruling, DiClerico made permanent a temporary injunction he had issued against Pan Am last month. In doing so, the judge was following the recommendations in a report issued earlier in the month by Magistrate James R. Muirhead.
As one reason for concluding that the shift in air operations was an attempt by corporate officers to get out from under a collective bargaining agreement Pan Am had with the pilot’s union, Muirhead’s report cited the fact that Boston-Maine Airways was intending, after Pan Am’s planned discontinuance of operations on Oct. 1, to fly the same routes Pan Am had been flying. Boston-Maine was not a party to the agreement, and its pilots are not unionized.
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PORTSMOUTH - A U.S. District Court judge has found that Pan Am Airlines illegally attempted to transfer its passenger service to a subsidiary airline with the intention of busting the Airline Pilots Association union and has put a stop to that process.
"Accordingly, the court adopts the magistrate’s determination that the transfer of 727 operations from Pan Am to Boston-Maine (Airlines) constituted a direct attempt to destroy a union," wrote Judge Joseph A. DiClerico Jr. in his decision issued Wednesday.
In that ruling, DiClerico made permanent a temporary injunction he had issued against Pan Am last month. In doing so, the judge was following the recommendations in a report issued earlier in the month by Magistrate James R. Muirhead.
As one reason for concluding that the shift in air operations was an attempt by corporate officers to get out from under a collective bargaining agreement Pan Am had with the pilot’s union, Muirhead’s report cited the fact that Boston-Maine Airways was intending, after Pan Am’s planned discontinuance of operations on Oct. 1, to fly the same routes Pan Am had been flying. Boston-Maine was not a party to the agreement, and its pilots are not unionized.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/10142004/news/42860.htm
http://alpa.org/alpa/DesktopDefault.aspx
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