Henry Duffy

Henry A. Duffy (born 1934)

Career Henry A. Duffy began his career in 1962 as a pilot for Delta Air Lines, later serving as the Chairman of the Delta Master Executive Council (MEC) and the Delta Pilots Representative to ALPA. In November 1982, he was elected as President of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), and served from 1983 to 1990. and was first interviewed on the national stage on the Larry King show on December 19,1983.

During his tenure as President of ALPA, he represented 50,000 commercial airline pilots, and was instrumental in the development of comprehensive collective bargaining agreements for airline pilots, preventing the implementation of a lower second tier of pilots, with corresponding lower pay and more restrictive work rules, and resolving the Eastern Airlines strike of 1989. Following frontal assaults on the industry by Frank Lorenzo, cited by the Chicago Tribune as 1985's "most intriguing, and perhaps important, labor-management conflicts", ALPA's efforts under Duffy's leadership assisted in Lorenzo being discredited and driven from the industry.

Duffy served as the chief U.S. delegate to the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations, a 64-nation organization representing commercial airline pilots. He also served on the executive board of the Maritime Trades Department, AFL–CIO, and was a member of the Services Policy Advisory Committee in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

He appeared in several C-SPAN videos while testifying before Senate committee hearings regarding collective bargaining (March 17, 1989), the Eastern Airlines strike in 1989 (March 7, 1989), and the replacement of striking workers (June 6, 1990).

Personal life Originally from Norfolk, Virginia, he obtained his Bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Miami.