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One Airline One Union 55,000 Members

IAM141.ORG Messenger 2

Official Publication of District 141, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Editor-in-Chief – Rich DelaneyExecutive Editor – Dave AtkinsonManaging Editor – Mike Mancini

District 141 Communication Director – Mike ManciniDistrict 141 Communication Coordinator – Dave LehiveLayout & Design – Mike Mancini

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HIGHLIGHTSSpring 2011

3. Identical twins A tale of two sisters at Detroit reservations

4. Retiree’s Advice Cut the “horses.”

5. Chicago Committeman: “Vote for the IAM.”

6. Merger History Chart United and Continental share same beginning. Now what about the future?

7. Al Carmona: “Members must be vigilant in mergers”

10. Labor History Early labor efforts fostered racial equality

11. Priceless

Better wages, better benefits, representation, and job protection

13. Bullying or heated discussion? How the teamsters created job security chaos with split shifts and straight time overtime

14. Remember Listing of retired Members; Obituaries

Correction:The names and photographs of Joe Pinto and Sam Zingo were swapped in the previous issue of The Messenger.

D A T E

YESMore than three thousand new Members join the IAM

Thirty-two hundred workers at AirTran Airways chose to be represented by the IAM on March 28, 2011.

This group represents a whopping forty-one percent of the entire workforce at AirTran. It includes reservations agents, passenger service agents, and ramp agents.

Led by District 141 Organizers Billy Kline, Fran Paci, Rick Russo, and Gene Beatty, AirTran workers made the right deci-sion to unite. Dave Lehive and Mike Mancini were the profes-sionals behind the web and videos.

District 141 Director of Organizing, Tim Nelson said, “AirTran put on a formidable anti-union campaign. Airline ex-ecutives hired Ford & Harrison, the top union-busting law firm.

But our new Brothers and Sisters at Airtran were deter-mined. They were ready to join the world’s largest airline union. AirTran Members saw their battle for representation right through to the end.

Steve Barfield, Atlanta Crew Member, said, “the teamsters walked away from us. The teamsters didn’t return phone calls.But the IAM stuck with us and provided us with the resources to get this done.”

AirTran will become a subsidiary of Southwest Airlines sometime after May 1. Southwest says it will operate AirTran as a separate brand for at least the next eighteen to twenty four months.

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Identical twins, identical jobs; Un-identical pay and benefits

This is a tale of twin sisters who worked as Passenger Service employees for United Airlines in the 1990s.

At the time, Teresa and Monica Dean weren’t represented by the IAM.

“We worked side by side in Denver on the same team and same shift, taking international reservations,” Teresa said.

“We had similar educational and work experience in the hospitality industry and we both worked in the same job for a phone company,” Monica recalled.

But because they did not have union representation and a union contract, management could do whatever it wanted. So Te-resa earned $9.75 an hour and could get raises every six months.

Meanwhile, Monica earned only $7.64 an hour for the same work and got raises only when the company felt like giving them to her.

“It wasn’t just the wage disparity,” Teresa said. “I could have accrued 125 sick days but Monica maxed out at 60.

Equal pay, equal benefits for equal work A union contract guarantees it

“I had company-paid medical and dental insurance but Monica had to contribute to her insurance premiums. And I got seven weeks of vacation while she only got four.

“Teresa also had a company-funded pension plan and I didn’t,” Monica added.

The seemingly arbitrary disparity in pay and benefits was one reason both sisters strongly supported the IAM in a repre-sentation election in 1998.

“We asked ourselves who will best represent us and we felt it was the IAM,” Teresa said.

“All of us in the airline transportation industry need the kind of independent, democratic representation only a strong union can provide,” Monica said. “And the IAM is that union.”

Both said that having a union improved their wages and benefits, as well as the way they were treated.

“With a union, you have to be treated fairly and with respect,” Teresa said.

“Management cannot change rules on a whim,” Monica said. “And we have a grievance procedure to address work problems.”

Both sisters now work in Reservations at United in De-troit, and their pay and benefits are equal.

“Having the IAM represent us is the best thing that could have happened to us,” Teresa said.

“The job protection alone is reason enough to vote union,” Monica said. “Before the union I saw many people unjustly fired and you never saw them again.

“With a union you have someone to fight for you.” Both urged everyone at Continental to vote for the IAM.

“You’ll be getting a strong union to support you,” they said.

MEMBER TALK

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ORGANIZINGRetiree’s experience with other union: Cut the horses

Jensen Chun, a retired ramp service lead, has a question for United and Continental employees.

“Why on Earth would anyone vote for a union other than the IAM?”

“The IAM knows the airline industry better than anyone else,” Chun said. “For the sake of its Members, this union has stood up to the carriers and fought the battles.”

Chun was a teamster when he began working for UPS as a ramp loader in 1975. He left UPS in 1978 to work for PSA in SFO, which at the time was also represented by the teamsters.

“I was there in the late 1980s when PSA merged with US Airways and later with Piedmont,” Chun recalled. “In the repre-sentation election that followed, the teamsters were voted out.”

“Not surprisingly, as soon as the union was out, the carrier drastically cut staff. Management cut the entire West Coast operation, laying off people left and right. They also elimi-nated the pension plan and cut holidays.”

Chun said it didn’t surprise him that those things hap-pened after the union was gone.

“Workers need a voice,” he said. “Unions are the only way to have a say on the job.

“After that election, there was no one who had our back. Everyone just did what he or she was told because there was no one to call if you had a problem.”

With Chun’s experience in both unions, there is no doubt in his mind which union to choose.

“The airline industry is so sensitive,” he said, “you have to go with the union that is battle tested. That union is the IAM.”

Chun said that the IAM, unlike some unions, provides train-ing for its stewards that enables them to be highly effective.

“I was a steward and committee chair for eight years prior to my retirement,” Chun said. “The IAM doesn’t just appoint stewards in name only, it gives them the training they need to do the job.”

Chun also praised the IAM’s defined-benefit pension plan.

“There is nothing like having a real pension when you retire,” he said.

“A defined-benefit pension plan is becoming increasingly difficult to find these days. And the IAM has just such a plan for its Members. The teamsters don’t.”

“It’s one more reason to vote IAM.”

Job security ends at midnight December 31, 2011 under the teamster negotiated fleet contract

Chicago Committee Member to Continental employees:

“You need to be in the IAM.”

Working at both union and non-union jobs has given Chicago Committee Member Peter Kush firsthand knowledge about the differences.

Kush is an emergency procedures instructor for United at ORD-TK. He began his career in the industry in 1970 as a non-union ticket agent at Continental.

“I was there in 1982 when Frank Lorenzo took over,” Kush recalled. “By September of ’83 we were in bankruptcy. He ran it into the ground.”

Kush said that immediately after the bankruptcy, most employees were told to leave. Others walked off the job.

“A few weeks after I left, I got a call from my former su-pervisor,” he said. “He asked me to come back to my old job. He said the new pay would be $7 an hour with no benefits. I was making $18 an hour with full benefits.”

Kush got the impression the offer was “take it or leave it,” and since he needed a job he took it.

“They eventually gave us a 50-cent an hour raise and a cou-ple of weeks vacation,” Kush said. “But it was a totally different work environment. Everyone was bitter and the relationship with management changed significantly. It became quite adversarial.

“This was a great airline that was built on pride and what happened to it was a shame.”

Kush said those employees at Continental who were represented by a union fared better in the reorganization that followed the bankruptcy.

“The mechanics and pilots were union and they had much better pay and benefits than we did,” he said. “Because we were unrepresented, we were like dust on a carpet. They could do with us whatever they wanted.”

Kush began working at United in 1991 but was not a Member of the IAM until 2003.

“As soon as our classification became represented, we noticed an immediate difference,” Kush said.

“We got a huge pay increase. Our work rules changed for the better. And if you had any problems on the job, the union was on the scene to back you up.”

Kush said current Continental employees will be in for “sticker shock” when they join United.

“United is a an adversarial company,” he said. “The only way to deal with it is to be in a union. You simply can’t be on your own. Management will walk all over you.”

“That’s why I strongly recommend that Continental employees vote IAM. They’ll have a union of 55,000 Members, one that has the strength, knowledge, experience, and power to do the job for its Members.”

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United, Continental share historyMost IAM Members probably have never heard of Walter

Varney or of his connection to the beginnings of both United and Continental Airlines.

Back in the early 1900s, when cross-country air races and barnstorming were the rage, the United States Post Office even began using aircraft to transport the mail.

The need for adequate landing fields soon became ap-parent. In 1916, a pilot named Silas Christofferson purchased a strip of land in Redwood City, Calif., that was used as an airstrip and a flying school.

A few years after Christofferson’s death, a local resident,

Walter Varney, a World War I pilot, purchased the landing strip and school and began a company called Varney Airlines.

Shortly thereafter, Varney bought the United Aircraft and Transportation Company and distributed flowers by air from greenhouses in Redwood City.

The Post Office soon required better and more depend-able air service to carry increasing quantities of mail. In 1924, it began to contract with private companies for that purpose.

In April 1926, Varney Airlines flew 64 pounds of mail from Paseo, Wash., to Elko, Nev., in the first contracted airmail flight.

In 1930, Varney Airlines and United Aircraft merged, and in 1933 changed its name to United Airlines. In 1934, Varney and a partner founded Varney Speed Lines. The company later became Continental Airlines.

What about the future?

MERGERCarmona: Members must be vigilant in mergers

Al Carmona, retired District 141 Secretary-Treasurer, knows from his four decades working in airline industry that when it comes to dealing with a merger, anything can happen.

“I’ve seen a lot of mergers,” Carmona said. “But one thing is constant. Management wants to make as many employees be non-union as possible.”

Carmona said that mandated representation elections following a merg-er offer an opportunity for management to eliminate union representation.

“They will launch campaigns against the union with sweet talk and outright lies,” he said. “But Members beware, their only goal is to decimate

the hard-won wages, benefits and working conditions that have taken decades to achieve.”

The US Airways-Piedmont merger in 1989 saw the team-sters, who represented US Airways ramp service workers, voted out.

“We went in and reor-ganized them,” Carmona said. “It took almost five years, but we finally nego-tiated a superior contract.”

The American Airlines-TWA merger in 2001 had a unique set of circum-stances that affected IAM Members’ seniority rights.

“The TWU represented American’s workers,” he said. “We represented TWA.”

“An arbitrator ruled that the TWU contract with American had precedence when it came to seniority. That meant that our Members had to go to the back of the line.”

Carmona said that if IAM Mem-bers wanted to keep their seniority, they had to transfer to St. Louis, TWA’s old hub.

“Anyone who didn’t transfer lost his or her seniority,” Carmona said.

“It just goes to show you that anything can happen and the union and its Members have to be vigilant.”

The America West and US Airways merger in 2005 had the opposite result.

“IAM Members’ seniority was recognized and we came out OK,” he said.

Carmona said that too often Members take their union benefits for granted and become complacent.

“All Members have to understand,” he said, “that when you lose union representation, you lose all of the protections and benefits in the union contract, including due

process, seniority, pay, and benefits. You are basically on your own.”

Carmona cited the example of non-union workers who do work out-sourced by the airlines.

“Just look at their wag-es, benefits and working conditions,” Carmona said. “Look at how the company treats them. That’s how you will be treated if there is no union to represent you.”

Carmona said all employees at United and Continental should ask themselves one question:

“Do you want to work under a contract and be in a union that is ded-icated to the protection of your rights or do you want to be on your own and work at the whim of management?”

Carmona knows the answer. “I know anyone who thinks about it will come to the conclusion that the IAM is the only way to go,” he said.

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LABOR HISTORYEarly labor efforts foster racial equality

Even the Labor Movement was not immune to the ram-pant racial discrimination prevalent in the United States in the early part of the 20th Century.

Just as with most institutions in society, many — but not all — unions were parties to segregation and racial inequality.

One significant exception was the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Longshoreman’s Local 8 in Philadelphia.

The IWW, also known as the Wobblies, was founded in Chicago in 1905 at a convention of 200 socialists, anarchists, and radical trade unionists from all over the United States. Many of the delegates were representatives of the Western Federation of Miners who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

The Wobblies believed that all workers should organize as a class and that the AFL had failed to effectively organize the U.S. working class because only 5 percent of all work-ers belonged to unions in 1905. They also believed the AFL organized workers according to narrow craft principles that divided workers.

The IWW’s policy broke from common practice by wel-coming black workers on equal, non-segregated terms.

Local 8 was founded in 1913. For most of its 10-year existence, it had a black majority and black workers served in leadership positions.

One of the local’s major accomplishments was ending the companies’ waterfront “shape-up” hiring system that had been used to discriminate against black workers.

In 1913, Local 8 also did away with segregation that had existed on the Philadelphia waterfront among work gangs.

All of these desegregation efforts were accomplished while the local successfully accommodated the needs of its members who were recent immigrants from eastern Europe and Ireland.

Enemies of the stateThe interracial, multicultural solidarity built by the union

withstood every challenge until 1922. But by then, the local had been weakened by the imprisonment of many of its top leaders during a government campaign of harassment that began during the years surrounding America’s involvement in World War I.

The leaders were jailed along with other IWW activists across the United States, charged with being “enemies of the state.”

The campaign of harassment finally took its toll and the local succumbed when it lost an employer lockout in 1922. But Local 8’s pioneering, unprecedented successful efforts to integrate black workers remains a lasting legacy.

Equal justiceUnless you’re a union leader

Prior to World War I, union leaders were declared enemies of the state by the United States Supreme Court. Many were jailed during the govern-ment campaign of harassment.

Some of the same leaders were fighting for racial equality.

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PricelessWhy pay dues to a union?

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “Let us count the ways.”

Sometimes we hear Members complain about having to pay their union dues.

No one likes to spend money, especially when times are tough. But every one of us should be proud to pay union dues, because our membership in District 141 is the best bar-gain of our working lives.

Here is what we union members get for our money:

• Better wages: The United States Bureau of Labor Statis-tics (BLS) reports that union members earn much more than non-union workers. In 2009, the median weekly earnings of union members was $908, while those who were not repre-sented by unions had median weekly earnings of $710. Of course, District 141 Members make much more than that.

• Better benefits: Union workers continue to enjoy signif-icantly better benefits than non-union workers. For example, the BLS reports that 93 percent of union workers have access to employer-paid health insurance, compared with only 70 percent of non-union workers.

Union workers also get better-quality health insurance and pay much less in co-pays and deductibles.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reports that union workers are more likely to have:

• Retirement benefits

• Employer-paid life insurance

• Paid sick leave

• Paid personal leave.

• Job protections: Your union contract guarantees you protection from arbitrary discipline from your employer. You also have certain rights on the job, including access to a grievance process that lets Members dispute the company’s interpretation or application of contract language and/or disciplinary procedures.

• Representation: If you believe that a violation of the collective bargaining agreement has occurred, you have the right to contact a union representative so that he or she can investigate your situation. If a violation has occurred, a griev-ance might be filed on your behalf. Workers who don’t have union representation are out of luck.

So the next time a co-worker asks you why it is important to belong to a union and what his or her union dues are for, please show them a copy of this article.

Unions always have and always will continue to make a vital difference for their Members and for our country.

Those union dues are a bargain.

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EDUCATIONBullying or Heated Discussion?

In life we all have heated discussions about politics, religion, family, and money, just to name a few. Not having a strong opinion seems unrealistic when it comes to a teamster contract that takes us back more than fifty years.

In 1948, the IAM negotiated double time pay for over-time. The teamsters don’t have double time. Instead they introduced straight-time overtime if you want it. That leads to the next teamster first, called split shifts. On a teamster split shift, while you’re sitting around waiting for the other half of your shift, why not work some straight time overtime?

The next thing the teamsters sold to its new, unknowing membership at Continental is unlimited part-time. In Houston there are nine hundred part-time workers. On January 1, 2012, that number could drop by half to four hundred fifty full-time split shift workers. January 1, 2012 is when the teamsters de-cided to end job protection.

That’s not the end of the carnage. Once workers start working straight-time overtime between their split shifts, there goes another two hundred jobs. The reduction of ben-efit cost for the company is in the millions and the teamsters got you $5 per day for each split shift.

The teamsters also introduced job sharing. Job sharing allows management, or anyone else, to do your work. I’m sure Continental’s teamster workers are already filing grievances but don’t expect too much. If it’s not written in your contract, you are not protected. By contrast, if management does hourly work in the IAM Contract, they have to pay with a penalty of time-and-a-half.

The teamsters also did not include Lead Ratios. The IAM contract calls for one lead for every twelve workers. In the teamster contract, management decides who and how many will get paid for Lead. How’s that grievance going for ya?

Retro pay, shift differential, and pay increases will begin nearest the employee’s anniversary date or “when technology permits.” That’s right. The words, “when technology permits” are actually in the teamster contract. How’s that grievance going?

The teamster Continental Micronesia contract says the company will contribute $0.47 to the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Plan for every hour worked. Compare that to the IAM Contract in which the company contributes $1.35 per hour worked to the IAM National Pension Plan. In twenty years, the teamster plan will pay you less than $250 a month. The IAM Plan will pay you $985 a month.

In every debate the IAM Contract exceeds the teamster contracts. The IAM believes in transparency. All these agree-ments can be found on voteIAM .com. Educate yourself and make an informed decision based on facts – not teamster promises.

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REMEMBERINGRecent retireesUnited Airlines

Arneson, Hollys V., BWICS 37 Yrs 8 MosBaker, Deborah SMFCS 11 Yrs10 MosBeers, Larry J. DTWRR 44 Yrs 6 MosBonnie, Melanie LGACS 32 Yrs 6 MosBreed, Jerry J. SEACG 35 Yrs 0 MosCarver, Linda S. MIAOZ 19 Yrs 4 MosCloud, Harry W. ORDCG 41 Yrs 2 MosCunningham, Carol A. ATLOZ 26 Yrs 8 MosDe Amicis, Jeanne M. LGACS 41 Yrs10 MosDooman, Frederick R. LAXCG 26 Yrs 8 MosFarber, Vera DENTK 31 Yrs 7 MosFields, Yolanda M. CHIRR 12 Yrs 1 MosFleetwood, Marcia E. ORDCS 25 Yrs 5 MosGarcia, Frank IADCS 15 Yrs 6 MosGuenther, Nelda Louise HNLRR 19 Yrs 7 MosHart, James A. BWICS 6 Yrs 2 MosHenry, William L. ORDCG 22 Yrs 11 MosKam, Rachel HNLRR 12 Yrs 5 MosKenny, Wendy S. DENCS 18 Yrs 4 MosKeys, Carolyn M. CHIRR 23 Yrs 0 MosKilpatrick, Afton-Rock E. MCOCG 41 Yrs 10 MosKliewer, Jerry W. LAXCG 24 Yrs 0 MosLeong, Kit Y. SFOJJ 42 Yrs 3 MosMaciejewski, Raymond C. ORDCG 41 Yrs 0 MosMaldonado, John DENCG 10 Yrs 0 MosMatlock, Roger D. ORDGQ 25 Yrs 3 MosMcGraw, Kathleen E. DENCS 13 Yrs 4 MosMiller, Paul F. DENCG 36 Yrs 4 MosMoore, Anna M. LAXCS 15 Yrs 9 MosMorrison, Deborah S. SEACG 21 Yrs 8 MosOlen, Daniel ORDCG 24 Yrs 7 MosOrth, Ralph A. LAXMM 41 Yrs 9 MosPaymaster, Barbara E. PHXOZ 41 Yrs 8 MosPeterson, Gordon G. DENCS 23 Yrs10 MosQuilao, Mariano SFOCG 11 Yrs 6 MosRamjohn, Thomas E. LAXCG 15 Yrs 9 MosRamsey, Kathy A. CHIRR 27 Yrs 2 MosRiley, Robert W. DENCG 21 Yrs 1 MosRoss, Janet T. CHIRR 15 Yrs 6 MosSeck, William BWICS 12 Yrs 1 MosSerritella, Michael G. ORDCG 26 Yrs 11 MosShultis, James A. DENCG 16 Yrs 1 MosSimpson, W.D. LAXCG 16 Yrs 0 MosSnyder, Mark J. SEACG 34 Yrs 0 MosStarbeck, Daniel E. ORDCG 23 Yrs 5 MosStarks, Darryl A. STLOZ 25 Yrs 1 MosStewart, Winnie L. IAHOZ 12 Yrs 11 MosSuarez, Edmundo G. LAXCG 23 Yrs 6 MosSyas, Cheryl A. DENTK 36 Yrs 3 Mos

Terada, Roy H. SFOCG 22 Yrs 1 MosThompson, John T. PHLCG 41 Yrs 6 MosTom, Mabel LGACS 43 Yrs11 MosUtz, Carolyn A. ORDCS 27 Yrs 2 MosValentin, Frances ORDJL 10 Yrs 0 MosWaldron, Raymond A. DENCG 38 Yrs 8 MosWaters, Robert C. ORDJL 26 Yrs 6 MosWhite, Kathleen R. OGGOZ 26 Yrs 0 MosWortham, Kevin G. DENCG 15 Yrs 8 MosWright, Bonnie C. DENTK 13 Yrs 3 MosYoung III, David J. HNLRR 32 Yrs 4 Mos

US Airways Retirees

Holmstrom, Gerald F. 02-Dec-2010 ORDNed, Romeo Benje 11-Dec-2010 PHXGoodwin, Peter 06-Jan-2011 CLTDeaguero, Antonio M. 24-Jan-2011 DENSmoger, Trent Richard 03-Feb-2011 PHXCouch, Debra Lynn 06-Feb-2011 LASOtis, Samuel Jr. 02-Dec-2010 DCAHarris, Marshall R. 09-Dec-2010 CLTPratt, Allen Victor 10-Dec-2010 PHXSettle, John Albert 15-Dec-2010 BURJoyce, Nancy A. 19-Dec-2010 PITByers, Edro B. 30-Dec-2010 CLTFlanagan, Bernard J. 31-Dec-2010 CLTNardilli, Victor 31-Dec-2010 PITCaputo, Bernard 01-Jan-2011 SFORivera, Levaun E. 11-Jan-2011 PHLMiranti, Anthony J. 21-Jan-2011 PHXHarris, Gary 31-Jan-2011 SMFSmart, Frank J. 08-Feb-2011 DCAHinkson, Aubrey S. 13-Feb-2011 PHLChristenson, Alan F. 27-Feb-2011 MSPKrall, Elmer Anton 27-Feb-2011 PITNardilli, Ralph 27-Feb-2011 PITHall, Rich M. 28-Feb-2011 CLTNayeri, Mike 28-Feb-2011 DCAPaslowski, Thomas Frank 06-Mar-2011 PITZuccaro, Daniel 06-Mar-2011 PITShannon, David J. 22-Dec-2010 CLTGaruccio, Lawrence Anthony 26-Dec-2010 CLTGardner, Philip Lewis 30-Dec-2010 PITClark, James David 04-Jan-2011 CMHHaynes, Randall R. 09-Jan-2011 DFWBemis, Kevin F. 06-Feb-2011 CLTDerosa, John 17-Feb-2011 FLLMartin, James D. 03-Mar-2011 PIT

Hawaiian Airlines Retirees Reporting no recent retirees

Philippine Airlines Retirees No report received

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ObituariesUnited Airlines

Bell, Kenneth C. DENCG 09/18/10Bentham, Mary C. retiree SFOCS 10/09/10Bossio, Joyce M. retiree LAXRR 10/18/10Brooks, Ralph B. retiree ORDFF 11/08/10Brown Jr, Frank T. LAXCG 09/26/10Brown, John W. retiree IADCS 10/14/10Bryant, Robert A. retiree SEARR 09/28/10Carr, Ronald N. retiree ORDCG 11/29/10Carter, Ross L. retiree RICOZ 09/03/10Coffman, Stanley V. retiree DENCG 09/07/10Conlon, James E. retiree IADCG 10/13/10Courtney, Melton C. retiree ORDJJ 11/27/10Daniels, Kate W. retiree DCARR 09/23/10Davies, Inez A. retiree JFKOZ 11/21/10Deleon, Mario N. retiree LAXHL 11/10/10Desouza, Nelson B. retiree IADRR 11/25/10Dickson, Gene A. retiree CLECG 10/18/10Douglas, Harold M. retiree DSMOZ 10/29/10Farrell, John F. retiree LGACS 09/09/10Figueroa, Jose A. retiree JFKHH 09/27/10Flaim, Robert J. retiree ORDCG 12/19/10Flood, Kathleen T. retiree LAXCS 09/11/10Gaik, Francis J. retiree SFOFF 09/03/10Gee, Kymond T. retiree SFOCS 10/05/10Gonzalez, Bibiano C. retiree ORDCG 09/19/10Graham, Patricia A. retiree LAXCS 11/18/10Handley, George E. retiree DENCS 11/09/10Hanna, Philip C. retiree DENCS 10/09/10Henninger, Dorothea J. retiree CLERR 11/01/10Herkimer, Gary J. retiree DTWRR 09/19/10Hess, Michael J. ORDCG 09/27/10Hill, Makeba L. ORDCG 11/04/10Hitt, Vincent L. retiree DCACG 09/04/10Jaken, Joseph D. retiree EWRCG 09/20/10Kazalla, Herbert R. retiree DENCS 11/07/10Kehmeier, Glen A. retiree DENCS 11/27/10Kraft, Robert L. retiree MLIOZ 12/04/10Krizek, William F. retiree ORDCG 12/27/10Lange, Gladys H. retiree CHIRR 09/13/10Ludeman, Gerald J. retiree PDXFF 09/25/10 Malloy, John J. retiree PHLFF 12/14/10Marlin, John M. retiree TPACG 09/21/10Marshall, Armstead W. retiree EWRCG 11/11/10Matsuda, Daisy H. retiree DENHH 10/01/10Mattes, Carl S. retiree YNGOZ 12/15/10 Mattson, Howard R. retiree GRROZ 11/08/10McClaran, Nancy J. retiree SJCOZ 12/20/10Mendez, Doris S. retiree JFKCS 10/17/10Mercado, Barry S. AUSOZ 11/23/10Miller, Patricia J. retiree DFWSS 11/28/10Miller, Russell J. retiree DENTK 11/27/10Morimoto, Katherine Y. retiree HNLHH 11/08/10Napohaku, Isaac K. retiree LAXCG 09/18/10

Neary, James SFOCG 12/26/10Palawski, Nell retiree SFORR 10/19/10Parisi, Teresa M. retiree ONTOZ 11/15/10Peet, Roger I. retiree IADRR 09/01/10Pinckney, Joe M. retiree PITCS 12/30/10Porties, Mantha ORDCG 11/08/10Quines, Oscar D. IADCG 10/01/10Quinn Jr, Edward J. retiree DENRR 11/26/10Rand, Jesse E. retiree NYCRR 12/05/10Reller, Lucy V. retiree SFOFF 10/17/10Remo, Proceso retiree MIAHH 11/06/10Rosales, Ismael E. retiree MIAHH 12/12/10Rothermund, Douglas K. retiree DENTK 09/19/10Schuck, Ann O. retiree LAXRR 11/27/10Schurman, Marlene B. retiree SEARR 10/24/10Scott Jr., Edward retiree ORDFF 09/09/10Senter, Nancy L. retiree SEARR 10/17/10Sheldon, William B. retiree ORDCG 09/09/10Shook, Charles D. retiree OMACG 10/24/10Simpson, Charles ORDCG 11/12/10Smith, Franklin G. retiree SANCG 12/29/10Spencer, Hershall I. retiree DENFH 09/23/10Spysinski, Richard B. retiree ORDJL 11/26/10Stankoski, Marjorie A. retiree DENHH 10/010Thompson, Wayne M. retiree FSDOZ 09/14/10Tive, Robert S. retiree DENTK 10/11/10To, Eddie S. retiree SFOJJ 10/02/10Tohlman, Robert D. retiree FLLCG 11/16/10Trombulak, George retiree SFOMB 11/01/10Turner, Noble L. retiree LAXCS 09/25/10Ubaldo, Sergio M. CHIRR 11/05/10Urrehman, Tahir J IADCG 09/09/10Walsh, John J. retiree ORDFF 10/01/10Watanabe, Avis S. retiree HNLHH 11/06/10Weaver, Dorothy A. retiree LASHH 09/18/10Weaver, Edwin R. retiree LASHH 11/18/10Whitt, Donald M. SFOMP 10/29/10Williams, Floyd T. retiree ORDFF 11/16/10Wise, Robert J. retiree MRYOZ 09/02/10Withrow, Tyrone J. retiree BOSFF 12/21/10

US Airways Obituaries

Holmstrom, Gerald F. 02-Dec-2010 ORDNed, Romeo Benje 11-Dec-2010 PHXGoodwin, Peter 06-Jan-2011 CLTDeaguero, Antonio M. 24-Jan-2011 DENSmoger, Trent Richard 03-Feb-2011 PHXCouch, Debra Lynn 06-Feb-2011 LAS

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Philippine Airlines Retirees No report received

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