TCU Daily Skiff Thursday, November 18, 1993 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas 91st Year, No. 49 Pilots may strike if flight attendant negotiations fail By GINGER RICHARDSON to take over the vacancies." TCU Daily Skiff Bergman said American Airlines is misleading its customers. Travelers around the country are "If the flight attendants do strike, worried they might be spending passengers are going to be in serious Thanksgiving at local airports if jeopardy," Bergman said. "American American Airlines flight attendants Airlines will not fly because they follow through with their threatened simply will not have adequate per- strike. sonnel. American Airlines and the Associ- "Right now we have almost ation of Professional Flight Atten- 19,000 flight attendants who are dants resumed contract talks in New ready and willing to strike," he said. Orleans early Tuesday morning, with "The airline has trained only 300 per- both sides reporting very little sonnel to fill those vacancies." progress. A reservations agent, who The airline and the 21,000-mem- requested anonymity, denied those ber flight attendant union have been allegations and said the airline would negotiating since October 1992 over meet the needs of its customers. pay, benefits, flight staffing and "Right now we don't anticipate the work scheduling. cancellation of any flights — even if The union is demanding a pay the flight attendants do strike, Amer- raise of 6 percent from Jan. 1 of this ican Airlines will fly," she said. TCU Daily Skiff/ Aimee Herring year, as well as an additional 5 per- Airline reservation personnel are Jarette Moore, a freshman premajor, takes her turn Wednesday at the Playday Teeter Totter-a-thon. Rival teeterers cent on Jan. 1, 1994. and July 1, checking over all of their reserva- (or is that totterers?) must teeter-totter for 48 hours in 2-hour shifts. Playday is sponsored by Alpha Delta Pi soror- 1995. The union is also opposing tions and negotiating with other car- new company rules that require riers, the agent said. ity- workers to pay now for post-retire- "As of right now, we have talked ment medical benefits, according to to all the other major carriers," she an article in Fort Worth Star—Tele- said. "They have agreed to let our gram. passengers fly on their airlines if the Eric Bergman, a flight attendant need arises." Students in top 10 at accounting contest and a negotiator for the union, said Despite the willingness of other that as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, the talks airlines to pick up the extra passen- were not going well. gers, a flight attendant strike will still By SUSAN HAYRE "The competition is held in two chosen to join the team by professor what we were doing once we got in cause many inconvenient delays, TCU Daily Skiff parts. About three weeks ago at the William Yancey, the group's spon- there," he said. "I enjoyed being a "I cannot say anything specific, regional competition in Austin, they sor. part of it." but the talks are not progressing." said Marsha Vink, a travel agent for Numbers, money and taxes. beat Oklahoma State, Texas A & M, "1 got a letter in the mail one day Yancey said the test was a case of Bergman said in a telephone inter- Hamilton Travel in Dallas. Threatening words to some, but Baylor, Southern Methodist, Texas that asked if 1 was interested in the 30 pages of facts. view. "The attendants will make no "Everyone will get out sooner or four TCU students capitalized on Tech and the University of Texas at team," Henry said. "I felt honored. 1 "The team had to imagine that they more concessions — the offer that is later," Vink said. "But a strike will such topics to participate in the Austin to qualify for the finals held in had gotten an 'A' in his Intro to Fed- were in an accounting firm and made on the table is the final offer, and definitely cause delays and inconve- national competition of the 2nd St. Charles, 111.," said Robert Vige- eral Taxation class last year, but 1 recommendations on the case," he there will be no more giving in." niences." annual Arthur Andersen Tax Chal- land, an accounting department didn'i know I had done ihat well." said. "They had lo deal with a flood, The flight attendants have been Vink also said American's state- lenge 1993. chairman. Henry said the team did not have inheritances, an IRS penalty notice doing informational picketing out- ment regarding agreements with Aj.the competition, held Nov. 13 "We are very proud to have made an opportunity to prepare much for and a check register." side the ticket gates at Dallas/Fort other carriers can be misleading. and 14, the team captured a SI.000 the top 10 because our undergraduate the competition. Yancey described the Arthur Worth International Airport all this "American may very well have an scholarship. accounting program is small by "We got familiar with the Internal Andersen experience as "pretty week. agreement with Delta in which that Senior accounting students national standards and we do not Revenue Code because we didn't impressive." In preparation for the impending carrier will pick up American's pas- Michael Henry of Hurst, David have a graduate program," Vigeland really have time to go over it in "Arthur Andersen is the world's strike. American Airlines has been sengers." she said. "But what they Hyman of Benbrook, Veronica said. "We only have two tax account- class," he said. largest public accounting and con- training administration personnel don't tell you is that Delta will accept Williams of Arlington and Michael ing classes, and most of the team Henry described the 7-hour test as sulting firm. It is based in Chicago, and other staff to fill in for the strik- the American Airlines ticket only on Woodruff of Trumann. Ark., repre- members have only had one of them, challenging but enjoyable. but the competition was held at their ing attendants. a first-come, first-serve basis — after sented the only team from Texas to which makes the team even more "Professor Yancey said our team professional education center," he "If there is a strike, American Air- all the Delta passengers are boarded become one of the 10 finalists from impressive." looked the most relaxed at the com- lines is prepared," a spokesman said. across the nation. Team member Henry said he was petition. We all found our place in see Tax, page 4 "We have a highly trained staff ready see Strike, page 6 Technical services manager gets star-spangled surprise Pledge of Allegiance for the judge oversee- was asked were who the president of the the test and the answers to those questions she can apply for United States citizenship. By NATALIE GARDNER in all different languages, he said. The Morar's family has five generations of TCU Daily Skiff ing the ceremony and then each person was United States was during the Civil War, presented with their nationalization certifi- who are the two Texas senators, what do the owner let Morar make a photocopy of the family in South Africa, he said. Due to the Red, white and blue banners draped cate proclaiming their new citizenship into stars and stripes on the American flag stand questions and answers, and Morar used this political instability in their country, Morar's across the desk and walls, silver stars hang- the United States, he said. for and what was the Emancipation Procla- as a study guide, he said. parents felt that some of the family needed ing off the file cabinet, an "Uncle Sam" hat Patriotic songs such as "The Star-Span- mation, he said. Morar left his native town of King to make a new beginning somewhere else, in red, white and blue, "Fourth of July" gled Banner" and "God Bless America" Morar asked a friend who had taken the William's Town, South Africa, in Decem- primarily for education purposes, he said. confetti on the seats, desk and floor and a were sung by performers and the president test before how to best study for the test. ber 1985 to attend the University of Texas Morar was not able to attend a "white "Happy Citizenship" banner stretched of the Texas Bar Association spoke to the The friend told him to go to the Chinatown at Austin. university" in South Africa without special across the wall. group, he said. near Irving and get a phone book from any "I first came from South Africa on a stu- permission from the government, he said. These were all gifts from fellow staff Besides participating in the ceremony, of the Oriental stores in the area, he said. dent visa, and after that my mother peti- His family decided that it would be best for members congratulating Satish Morar, tech- applicants also have to pass a test over basic "The first 50 or 100 pages of the phone tioned for me, and a year and a half later I him to pursue his college education and set- nical services manager in Development questions on U.S. government and history book deals with various things that a person got my green card." he said. "1 had to go to tle down in the United States, he said. Information Services, on his new citizen- to be able to become an American citizen, that is new to this country would want to South Africa to get it, though." At the beginning of this year, Morar went ship to the United States last Friday night in he said.