Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire
Tuesday, September 22, 1998
Maui coffee firm signs contract with union
The Kaanapali Estate Coffee Co. on Maui and the ILWU have signed a new labor contract covering the 400-acre coffee plantation's workers for three years.The company and the union said the contract was ratified overwhelmingly by the union membership. Details of the contract terms were not disclosed.
J. Kimo Falconer, the company's vice president of agriculture operations, said the contract allows the company greater flexibility in harvesting and processing its crop during the limited annual harvesting period. The company, which sells its product as 100 percent Maui coffee, is a subsidiary of Amfac/JMB Hawaii Inc.
United Airlines chooses Goodwin as president
CHICAGO -- UAL Corp.'s United Airlines named James Goodwin as president and chief operating officer, four days after John Edwardson resigned because he failed to win union support at the largest U.S. airline.Goodwin, 54, served as senior vice president for North America since 1995. UAL named Christopher Bowers, 50, senior vice president for international operations, as his successor. The moves are effective immediately.
Goodwin was in Hawaii in the early 1970s as administrative assistant to the Pacific region vice president.
Edwardson stepped down because he lacked support from the employee-owned company's pilots and Machinists unions for his ascent to the top executive's job. UAL Chairman and Chief Executive Gerald Greenwald, 62, is expected to retire next year when his contract with United ends, Bloomberg News reported.
Northwest Airlines gets all its jets in service
MINNEAPOLIS -- Northwest Airlines is back at full operations after a 15-day pilots' strike. Northwest jets resumed flying last week after pilots union leaders approved a new contract."The start-up plan was a huge success," said Tim Rainey, Northwest's managing director for operations control. About 98 percent of Northwest employees have returned to work, the airline said.
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