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Mesa Air being sued by pilots
Advertiser Staff
Pilots at Mesa Air Group Inc. have sued the Phoenix-based carrier to enforce a six-month-old arbitration award on pilots' scheduling.
The Air Line Pilots Association, which represents about 1,800 Mesa employees, said in a suit filed yesterday in Phoenix that the airline continues to violate the agreement by altering awarded flight schedules, reassigning flight duties and rescheduling awarded flights. The frequent scheduling changes result in job dissatisfaction and fatigue, ALPA said.
Mesa is the parent of go! Joe Bock, a spokesman for the local interisland carrier, said he hadn't seen the suit and could not comment.
TRADE TRIP TO CHINA FINISHES
Thirty-five Hawai'i business people, state workers and entertainers returned from a trade mission to China yesterday.
The delegation — 23 business people, five DBEDT staff members and seven entertainers from Malu Productions — left on Nov. 24. In Guangzhou the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism held two investment seminars for about 180 potential Hawai'i investors.
The Guangzhou Provincial Government had hired Malu for $10,500. Apart from the entertainers and state employees, participants paid their own expenses, DBEDT said. No sponsorships were sold to business participants, the agency added.
GRAY ELECTED TO HAWTEL BOARD
Telecommunications industry veteran Stephen Gray has been elected to Hawaiian Telcom's board of directors, the company announced yesterday.
Gray is executive chairman of SecurityCoverage, a privately held company based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, that provides computer security services for homes and small businesses. Gray also serves on the board of Insight Communications Inc., the ninth-largest cable company in the U.S.
