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Wednesday, October 5, 1983/The Battalion/Page 5 Plots’ future still undecided is Chairman negotiates with strikers he United Press International I Continental Airlines Chair- lian Frank Lorenzo met in Houston Tuesday with striking Slots to trv to convince more of Yevehirf iem t0 conie hack to work, but appeared afterward he had ees who(| appeared aneiua r third 1 ian g ed few minds - heirtpnV The hour-and-45-minute eating at a Houston Intercon- nental Airport hotel attracted ily about 30 pilots, some of hom were strikers and some of e; 5« te in thes had | Vlc Koy ming j n nosis S a n worl 974, ,e badiefc lol °gy, u ster’s dei ge.thisisi bhthisi universiti ( whom were flying despite the Air Line Pilots Association strike that began Saturday. Continental originally said it needed 350 pilots to fly the re duced schedule it put into effect Sept. 27 and that it had 050. Monday Continental said it needed 500 and did not have enough. The strike followed Con tinental's Sept. 24 filing for bankruptcy reorganization, re ducing its flight schedule by two- thirds, laving off8,000 of 12,000 employees, cutting pay and ex tending work hours for those who stayed. ALPA calls the reorganiza tion union-busting. Lorenzo calls it company-saving. About 100 pilots and flight attendants stood outside and hissed those who went into the Houston meeting. Lorenzo and vice presidents Philip J. Bakes and Richard Adams left without comment bv a back exit. Job program to help train future employees by Shawn Behlen ,7 | Battalion Reporter t Th e B razos Valley Develop- 3 e ^ nient Council will accept appli- lnit y to mti 0nS for the Job Training wa ys to® ai . tners hjp Act program in id-October. The program re laces the Comprehensive Em- lovment and Training Act. ons and Oci. '•attheCi 7 Ave. I :h or “Employers are finding that there are not enough people who can do the work they need," she says. “They are being forced to help train their own work force." The program will provide services to help high school stu- schools and other training facili ties. “We're trying for a plan more suited to our needs," she savs. “There is a big gap between peo ple who need help and em ployers." Pilot Cal Harman, 35, a six- year veteran who flew Tuesday through Saturday before join ing the strikers, burst out of the room after about 45 minutes so angry he had tears in his eves. “He’s unscrupulous. He’s a liar," Harman said. "It’s hard to believe the people in there are telling us the things they are tell ing us, that they care about safe- tv. They arejamming something down our throats and it is not safe." But Jay Svenson, 38, a six- year veteran of Texas Interna tional and Continental, emerged from the meeting saying he would continue to fly and wished both sides would talk to each other instead of the media. ontact at sport ■woman i the isstid members] ltd I Program director Margaret Weirich says JTPA will work to jrovide training for people with iv income or with barriers to Imployment such as handicaps, CETA did before. The council will oversee the program for Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Robert- n and Washington counties. Weirich says the new prog ram will try to offer a variety of ■raining and work with em ployers. The program will help peo- ble attend technical schools, Inch as the Texas State Technic- Institute, by paving for sup- bortive tuition, books, room and board, she savs. dents get after school work or fr© practical training in class. Short- v term projects such as summer k youth programs, also will be 0 offered. K Weirich said although the S JTPA program seems similar to o CETA on the surface, there will S be some major differences. “The JTPA program shows manv more possibilities," she savs. The state government has been more involved with plan ning and implementation and we now have the guidance of the Private Industry Council.” Weirich says PIC is an advis ory board appointed bv Gov. Mark White. It has 25 represen tatives from the seven-county ci 5 a. Fifteen of the members are businessmen and 10 are from SOOCOCOOOOCOCOOCO! MSC LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AVAILABLE Chalrman-MSC Games Chairman-MSC Recreation APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE thur Oct. 7 At The Secretary’s Island 216 MSC tbooco? “ The company's saying let's talk. ALPA's saying let’s talk. But nobody's talking,’’ Svenson said. “It's a shame more people weren’t there to listen to what's going on.” Pilot Gil Chase, 46, an 18- year veteran, was among the 100 pilots who would not go into the meeting: “It's a non-event and another pack of lies. They’ve lied to us so much,” he said. In its reorganization, Con tinental slashed top pilot pay from $83,000 to $43,000 a year t and demanded the pilots fly 85 “hard” hours a month as opposed to 53 hours. Pilots say they spend many more actual hours working and Continental’s changes are un safe. Svenson said Federal Avai- tion Administration monitors are checking Continental closely and “if anything it’s safer than before.” Continental also slashed flight attendants’ pay from $28,000 to $15,000. eye Debaters speech issue The Debate Team will hold its second forum of the semes ter tonight in 701 Rudder Lower. The topic is “Resolved: That the Rudder Fountain Speakers Violate the Separa tion of Church and State.” The discussion will cover indi vidual rights, religious free- ’ dom, freedom of speech and the separation of church and state. 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