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AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION

EASTERN

SPECIAL EAL MEC MEETING
AUGUST 26, 1968
CROSSWAYS INN - MIAMI, FLORIDA

PRESIDING: R. L. Tully, MEC Chairman

IN ATTENDANCE:

ATL - COUNCIL #7
W. T. Malone
W. G. Scruggs

MIA - COUNCIL #18
J. B. Railsback
C. S. Kern

JFK - COUNCIL #51
T. Crane
F. Whitaker
(Proxy for E.T. Dolan)

BOS - COUNCIL #72
G. Cusack
A. H. Scott

CHI - COUNCIL #76 
B. B. Busse
T. Helms

DCA - COUNCIL #142
J. T. Corkran
R. B. Steece

COMMITTEES PRESENT:
Age 60 Retirement Committee: M. Gitt and J. Richardson

MEC Policy Research & Coordinating Committee: J. N. Mogus, Chairman

GUESTS:
O. W. Frey, L. P. Anderson, H. Levy, Glenn Aument

RECORDER: Jack Mogus

AGENDA ITEMS: #1. Monthly Maximum Pay hours, #2. Age 60 Retirement Committee and #3. Q's and A's (New Agreement).

The meeting was called to order by Chairman Tully at 14:02. The roll call indicated that all positions were represented. F. Whitaker submitted a proper proxy from E. T. Dolan which was accepted by Chairman Tully.

A vote was taken through which the agenda items were accepted unanimously.

AGENDA ITEM #1:

Corkran opened the discussion by asking if anyone has any evidence that the emergency that the Company proclaims really exists. Kern stated that he had communicated with Whatley and Buttion who blamed training for the major part of the crisis. At no time had either mentioned ATC as the source of the trouble. He further commented that the problem evidently was poor planning again on the part of the Company. Corkran stated that he believes the Company is using training and ATC in an attempt to open the door for the pilots to solve all of the Company's problems. A great deal of the training problems are a result of the re-run of the July Section 28 bid which had to be re-run specifically because the Company put it out wrong to begin with. He introduced figures showing that the Company training requirement is already cut fifty percent from the so-called "planned" figures. He 

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